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Source: Associated Press
Associated Press in Matamoros
Fri 6 Sep 2019 19.32 BST Last modified on Fri 6 Sep 2019 21.14 BST
A Salvadoran woman who was eight and a half months pregnant and experiencing contractions was apprehended by US border patrol after crossing the Rio Grande and forced to go back to Mexico.
Agents took her to the hospital, where doctors gave her medication to stop the contractions. And then, according to the woman and her lawyer, she was almost immediately sent back to Mexico.
There, she joined the more than 38,000 people forced to wait across the border for immigration court hearings under a rapidly expanding Trump administration policy. And her plight highlights the health risks and perils presented by the Remain in Mexico program.
The woman was waiting on Thursday with her three-year-old daughter in a makeshift tent camp in Matamoros, Mexico, next to an international bridge, due to give birth any day, said her attorney, Jodi Goodwin.
Shes concerned about having the baby in the street or having to have the baby in a shelter, Goodwin said.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/06/us-immigration-pregnant-woman-mexico-trump-policy
Judi Lynn
(160,217 posts)Mersky
(4,969 posts)Did the doctors freely make the call to stop the contractions? I'm not medically trained, but I have a hard time understanding how a doctor, that probably didn't have a good medical history of the pregnancy, decided the delivery would be so terribly preterm at 8.5 months, that the best treatment was to delay. I mean, did they know she'd be sent to live on the streets?
Or was CBP in on the decision?
As I take this in from my gerrymandered district, if the baby and mother suffer foreseeable complications, that's on all of us taxpayers.
The administration and all their dutiful minions mean to put on a show of cruelty. Prey upon the vulnerable to prop-up unthinking, hateful policies that will do nothing to bring back jobs automated away or evaporated by pres. twitter fingers.