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mysteryowl

(9,315 posts)
Wed Mar 4, 2026, 10:25 AM Mar 4

ICE quickly moves pregnant girls to ONE detention facility in Texas that does not allow abortions

1/2 of the pregnant girls in ICE detention are pregnant from rape.
Pregnant girls used to be spread throughout the various detention centers in various states or foster homes.
Personally, I think this is Stephan Miller's doing.

Underage pregnant migrants are being detained and moved to a Texas shelter where abortion is illegal
Children as young as 13 are ‘trapped’ in a state with no access to abortion, lawyers and advocates say.
Donald Trump’s administration is concentrating all pregnant children being held in federal immigration enforcement custody into one group shelter in south Texas, a state where abortion is outlawed with no exceptions for survivors of rape or incest.

Since last summer, more than a dozen pregnant minors, some as young as 13 years old, have been moved to a facility in San Benito along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a joint investigation by The Texas Newsroom and The California Newsroom, citing sources within the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within the Department of Health and Human Services.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/pregnant-migrants-minors-texas-shelter-trump-b2925941.html

Pregnant migrant girls are being sent to a Texas shelter flagged as medically risky
The Trump administration is sending all pregnant unaccompanied minors apprehended by immigration enforcement to a single group shelter in South Texas. The decision was made over urgent objections from some of the administration's own health and child welfare officials, who say both the facility and the region lack the specialized care the girls need.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/03/nx-s1-5712323/pregnant-migrant-girls-texas-shelter


US moving pregnant immigrant girls to Texas to avoid providing abortions, critics say
Ex-official calls transfer of unaccompanied girls as young as 13, many pregnant due to rape, a human rights violation.
All unaccompanied immigrant children who are pregnant, many by rape, are being moved to a single facility in Texas in order to avoid providing abortion services in a significant human rights violation, critics say.

As detainees are frequently moved across state lines quickly, often to red states like Texas, pregnant people are facing challenges accessing reproductive health care in detention centers.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/01/pregnant-immigrant-children-texas-abortion


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Easterncedar

(6,289 posts)
1. Generational trauma continues to be created
Wed Mar 4, 2026, 10:29 AM
Mar 4

We will be hated, justifiably, for as good as forever for all of this.

The US is now loathed and feared worldwide. The cold war has been won by Russia at last.

Fiendish Thingy

(23,263 posts)
2. Do they realize they are creating a new generation of "anchor babies"?
Wed Mar 4, 2026, 10:41 AM
Mar 4

They are going to give a whole bunch of babies American citizenship…not sure that’s what they intended.

rampartd

(4,641 posts)
10. i hope so
Wed Mar 4, 2026, 12:32 PM
Mar 4

but none of my optimistic hopes have been realized for 3/4 century. why start now?

WhiskeyGrinder

(26,960 posts)
14. where to start?
Wed Mar 4, 2026, 02:00 PM
Mar 4

* huge comfortable plane, looks like a class above first class lol
* no chains, blindfolds, zipties or handcuffs
* prisoners carrying personal effects, with neutral expressions
* prisoners built like adults
* ICE agents wearing medical masks
* facial expressions showing apprehension but not terror or grief

etc., etc.

It's slop, that's it.

Marcuse

(9,020 posts)
6. Odd. Were Stephen Miller unrestrained by appearances abortion would be illegal for some and mandatory for others.
Wed Mar 4, 2026, 11:48 AM
Mar 4

Efilroft Sul

(4,413 posts)
15. Wouldn't surprise me if these girls are unceremoniously dumped in Mexico when they go into labor.
Wed Mar 4, 2026, 02:14 PM
Mar 4

Every fetus is precious until it's about to become an anchor baby, don'tcha know?

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