By the time she was released from a Louisiana immigrant detention center, a Nashville mother of two could no longer breastfeed her young daughters. Her milk had dried up.  An asylum seeker from Guatemala, she had not seen or spoken with her children since being detained by immigration agents at her home on May 19 […]

Five human rights organizations are seeking the immediate release of a breastfeeding mother with a pending asylum claim, who was detained in May by immigration agents at her home in Nashville as she was putting her two young children into a car to get to a doctor’s appointment. In a formal complaint filed Wednesday with […]