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Did They Need To Do This?

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A nine months pregnant woman was roughed up by ICE agents:

A 28-year-old pregnant woman set to give birth as early as next week is speaking out about being detained by immigration authorities in California, even after telling agents she was a U.S. citizen.

Cary López Alvarado lost her balance as agents “shoved her” during her arrest over the weekend, she tearfully told NBC Los Angeles on Monday from a hospital bed. “That’s when I kind of leaned forward, trying to protect the stomach.” López Alvarado told Telemundo 52, NBC’s sister station in Los Angeles, “I was afraid that they were going to hurt me.”

In an interview at her home Tuesday with Noticias Telemundo, López said “I crouched down and held my belly because I was scared they would hurt me…three agents were grabbing me and trying to handcuff me.”

After being released Sunday, López Alvarado said she started experiencing sharp pains in her stomach and was hospitalized. With just one week left before her due date, her doctors said they are monitoring López Alvarado as well as her baby, NBC Los Angeles reported.

Masked men wearing Border Patrol uniforms pulled up to a building’s private parking in the city of Hawthorne in marked U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicles on Sunday, after following a white pickup truck with two undocumented workers, one of which is López Alvarado’s partner, Brian Nájera.

López Alvarado and her cousin Alberto Sandoval, who is also a U.S. citizen, opened the parking’s gate so her partner and co-worker could come in. López Alvarado and Sandoval as well as Nájera her partner and the other co-worker were in the building doing maintenance work. López Alvarado said she and her cousin believed agents would need to show they had a warrant to be able to enter their workplace.

They did not need to manhandle, hand cuff and arrest her. But they did. Arresting an immigrant in his workplace is not an emergency. There is no reason that they have to exert their authority in every single situation.

But they are under a quote now, as directed by Commandante Miller and they will do anything to make their numbers. Even if it requires roughing up ]heavily pregnant women.

Who are these people?

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