‘I can't fight back; I'm pregnant': U.S. citizen detained by ICE in Hawthorne

A U.S. citizen who is nine months pregnant was hospitalized upon her release from immigration custody after she was detained by federal agents in Hawthorne on Sunday.

Cary Lopez has been experiencing sharp pains in her stomach after immigration agents arrested her, despite being a United States citizen. She said the federal agents accused her of obstructing the arrest of her undocumented husband.

“They had us all surrounded,” she said.

The confrontation, which took place near the intersection of 120th Street and Hawthorne Way, was caught on camera. In the video, agents who hid their faces with masks and sunglasses and traveled in marked border patrol vehicles, are informed they were on private property.