An immigrant woman separated from her 11-month-old and 3-year-old when she was sent to a detention facility in Louisiana has been released and reunited with her children, an immigrant advocacy group said.
The woman, whom the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition identified only by a pseudonym, was released from the South Louisiana Immigration and Customs Enforcement Processing Center on Aug. 14. TIRRC said it was not releasing the woman's name to protect her safety.
The woman's attorneys argued her arrest in Nashville on May 2 violated the Immigration and Customs Enforcement's policies against arresting breastfeeding women.
The woman is seeking asylum but had not been granted it at the time of her arrest.
The children, one of whom has
Down syndrome, missed critical medical appointments after their mother's arrest, according to TIRRC.
"We are thrilled that (the woman) is home with her children but pained by the trauma this family is enduring at the hands of ICE," TIRRC's senior director of legal strategy, Spring Miller, said in a statement. "We will not stop fighting for (the woman) and for all the other mothers throughout Tennessee who are being taken from their children by a cruel and unaccountable administration."
ICE did not immediately return a request for comment.
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