Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities are horrifying for anybody, embodied by deplorable living conditions, torturous treatment, and a sickening lack of quality healthcare.
Unfortunately, a record number of pregnant women have been swept up and sent to such facilities — and it’s hard to imagine a worse place to be during the prenatal period.
Horrifying new reporting by the Guardian took a hard look at the state of health care for pregnant women and teenagers held in ICE custody. During the first nine months of Trump’s return to the White House, the agency recorded 18 miscarriages from women held in its custody, an already appalling statistic.
Yet as the Guardian found, ICE’s miscarriage records only go up to October of 2025, and any subsequent loss of pregnancy has been lost in the shuffle.
