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Nursing Mother Detained Despite ICE Policy | Dayton News
A Guatemalan mother, Maria Perez, is locked up in Louisiana while fighting ICE’s detention—despite federal policy that bans separating nursing or postpartum mothers from their children unless there’s an extreme circumstance. She’s caring for a 10-month-old and a 2-year-old with Down syndrome, now under a neighbor’s watch. Her lawyers are pushing a habeas petition and asylum claim, rooted in escaping domestic violence back home, arguing ICE broke its own rules. But DHS says she’s an “illegal alien” who entered in 2022, falsely claimed U.S. citizenship, and left her kids unattended during her…
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