ICE announces reversal of policy of detaining pregnant, nursing migrants

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : "ICE is committed to safeguarding the integrity of our immigration system and preserving the health and safety of pregnant, postpartum and nursing individuals," said Tae D. Johnson, acting ICE director.
55% : "We call on ICE to restore its August 2016 memo on the Identification and Monitoring of Pregnant Detainees with presumption of release."
53% : He made the comments in a letter addressed to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE.
47% : WASHINGTON -- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency involved in deportations and other immigration-related detention proceedings, announced July 9 it would not detain, arrest or take into custody pregnant or nursing migrants for violating immigration laws except in exceptional circumstances.
43% : "We are deeply troubled by the cruel ICE directive which eliminates the presumption that ICE should not detain pregnant women except in extraordinary circumstances, and also removes some requirements regarding treatment of pregnant women in detention," FAN member Sister Marie Lucey of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia said in 2018.

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