ICE Is Shutting Pregnant Girls In A Facility With Inadequate Care, In An Abortion-Banned State

Since the summer, Trump’s cruel deportation campaign has been apparently stuffing more than a dozen pregnant girls—some who are as young as 13, and at least half of whom got pregnant because they were raped—into a facility in San Benito, Texas, in accordance with a senior directive. And not only are employees concerned that the shelter is medically inadequate for the girls’ needs, but the move seems to be a deliberately malicious plan to place them in Texas, home the country’s strictest abortion ban.

“These girls are experiencing high-risk pregnancies and are some of the most medically vulnerable people in detention,” Zain Lakhani, the director of migrant rights and justice at the Women’s Refugee Commission, told Jezebel. “Placing them in a facility that federal officials themselves say lacks necessary specialized care puts their lives and the lives of their babies at risk.”