by Sarah Terzo — Organizations on both sides of the abortion debate have been trying to raise awareness of pregnant immigrants detained by ICE. These detainees are receiving substandard medical care, resulting in harm to themselves and their babies. The Number of Pregnant People in ICE Custody Seems to be Increasing Attorney Rebecca Cassler, who works for the American Immigration Lawyers Association, says her group is seeing increasing numbers of pregnant, postpartum, and nur

by Sarah Terzo — The Study and Its Findings A study published in 2025 in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association found that immigrants who spent time in detention centers were up to twice as likely to suffer from PTSD as combat veterans. This study, which was published on January 24, 2025, four days after Donald Trump’s inauguration, used data on detainees released in 2020 and 2021. The data paints a dire picture of the conditions inside immigrant detenti

Re: Protections for Pregnant, Postpartum, and Nursing Women in Immigration Custody Dear President Trump, Secretary Noem, and Acting Director Lyons: We write as pro-life organizations to urge the immediate reinstatement and enforcement of federal protections that prevent the detention of pregnant, postpartum, and nursing women, except in truly exceptional circumstances. Pregnancy and early postpartum are medical states that require care that immigration detention facilities ar

by Timothy Kirchoff — Recently, a number of anti-ICE protestors disrupted a worship service at Cities Church in St. Paul because one of the church’s leaders is also a Field Office Director for ICE . Department of Justice officials are apparently considering charging these protestors under the FACE Act , which was originally introduced in 1993 by then-Representative Chuck Schumer in order to stop the pro-life protests — some of them violent, even deadly — that had been occurr