Pregnant U.S. Citizen Detained by ICE While Telling Them She’s American?! 🚨

 Pregnant U.S. Citizen Detained by ICE While Telling Them She’s American?! 🚨 Imagine you're 8 months pregnant, standing on your own property, telling immigration agents you were born in Los Angeles—and they still shove you to the ground and cuff you. That’s what happened to Cary López Alvarado, a 28-year-old U.S. citizen just one week away from giving birth. She says she was trying to protect her belly when agents pushed her during a chaotic arrest in Hawthorne, California. Her only “crime”? Trying to block federal agents from busting into a private property gate without a warrant, after they followed her undocumented partner and his coworker into a building where she and her cousin were doing maintenance work.

Despite telling agents she was born in Hollywood Hospital, López says they accused her of being Mexican, dismissed her claims, and threw her in a car alongside the men they were arresting. The entire thing was captured on video—where you can hear her calmly demanding they leave the private lot. But the moment she blocked them from entering? Boom. They arrested her for “obstruction.” Now she’s in a hospital, in pain, waiting on her due date, and still hasn’t been given any formal paperwork or charges.

DHS says the agents were assaulted and claim "rioters" threw wrenches and batteries during the arrest. But multiple witnesses—and video—say López was peaceful, terrified, and not resisting. The craziest part? She still hasn’t heard from her partner since that day. It all went down during a weekend full of immigration raids and protests in LA, where tensions between ICE and local communities are boiling over again.

So here’s the question: What’s the point of citizenship if it doesn’t protect you from this?