The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported in 2010 an agency policy that ICE wouldn’t be detaining any pregnant women, unless and until only in the case of unexpected circumstance, and mandatory detention would be done. In the normal case, a woman is released; provided there is no kind of threats to the country, she has no criminal record and gang ties etc.

 Fusion’s reviewers of documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) have reported that nearly 559 pregnant women have been detained in six immigration detention centers. The average time spent by these pregnant women in the detention facility is almost a month.

 Reports imply that women are underfed and deprived of medical treatment. They are neglected by the ICE officials during pregnancy and childbirth. As per Human Rights Watch report, women also go through severe unsanitary conditions, forcing them to re-use the sanitary pads for their menstrual periods and receive inadequate pregnancy care.

Immigration lawyers commented that these kinds of tactics are used in order to impose pressure on immigrants so that they are forced to voluntarily accept the deportation rather than wait for their turn for a court hearing.

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