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Guatemalan woman gives birth at Tucson Medical Center while in Border Patrol custody, told to decide whether to take newborn on immediate deportation

May 2025 · Tucson, AZ, Guatemala

After a Guatemalan woman gave birth at Tucson Medical Center in Arizona while in Border Patrol custody, she was told she faced immediate deportation and would have to decide whether to take her U.S.-citizen newborn daughter with her. Agents stationed at the hospital refused to let her attorney access her so that she could sign a G-28 form. After public pressure and intervention from local officials and counsel, the mother and baby were released into the care of a nonprofit in Phoenix.

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