Center for Immigration Law and Policy (CILP) at the UCLA School of Law, JFS San Diego, ACLU, and ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties have sent a petition to urge CBP to limit its detention of pregnant/postpartum/nursing individuals and their families to the time necessary to process them for release to their networks of care (no more than 12 hours). This would help prevent traumatic experiences like those of mothers who have been forced to give birth under unsafe conditions and those who have experienced other medical emergencies while in custody. This would also bring CBP policy in line with ICE’s policy of presumptively not detaining pregnant/postpartum/nursing individuals.
The final petition was signed by 1,462 individuals and 138 immigrants’ rights, reproductive justice, medical, and human rights organizations.
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