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Pregnant U.S. Citizen Detained by ICE While Telling Them She’s American?! ๐Ÿšจ

 Pregnant U.S. Citizen Detained by ICE While Telling Them She’s American?! ๐Ÿšจ 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 Lรณpez 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 , Lรณpez 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 th...