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Immigration Detention Is Dangerous for Women’s Health and Rights
By Nora Ellmann
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Lost in the heated public debate about immigration are the stories of individuals who suffer under the cruelty of the Trump administration—such as Teresa, who suffered a miscarriage and related complications while in immigration custody, and was denied the care she needed.

Teresa suffered at the hands of an immigration detention system that has dehumanized, criminalized, and abused immigrant people of color—particularly Black, Latinx, and Muslim women—and rendered their experiences invisible and irrelevant.

From family separation, to attempts to erode asylum protections for families and domestic violence survivors, to inaction on reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, immigrant women live at the crux of the Trump administration’s anti-women and anti-immigrant agendas.

This report <[link removed]> details four areas critical to the health of women and girls where some of the most egregious rights violations have occurred in immigration detention: maternal health, reproductive autonomy, mental health, and sexual abuse. In each of these critical areas, CAP offers policy recommendations to improve the standards and quality of women’s health. The report highlights the need for policies and oversight to limit the use of detention and ensure that the rights and autonomy of women and girls in detention are not further violated.

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See Also: FACT SHEET: Women’s Health and Rights in Immigration Detention <[link removed]>

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