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US Tells Migrant Woman 8 Months Pregnant to Wait in Mexico

Associated Press

   MATAMOROS, MEXICO - Eight-and-a-half-months pregnant and experiencing
   contractions, a Salvadoran woman who had crossed the Rio Grande and was
   apprehended by the Border Patrol was forced to go back to Mexico.

   Agents took her to the hospital, where doctors gave her medication to
   stop the contractions. And then, according to the woman and her lawyer,
   she was almost immediately sent back to Mexico.

   There, she joined the more than 38,000 people forced to wait across the
   border for immigration court hearings under a rapidly expanding Trump
   administration policy. And her plight highlights the health risks and
   perils presented by the "Remain in Mexico" program.

   The woman was waiting Thursday with her 3-year-old daughter in a
   makeshift tent camp in Matamoros, Mexico, next to an international
   bridge, due to give birth any day, said her attorney, Jodi Goodwin.

   "She's concerned about having the baby in the street or having to have
   the baby in a shelter," Goodwin said.

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