According to its masthead, “The Nashville Banner” is a locally owned, community-supported civic news organization that provides non-partisan journalism that empowers the people of Nashville to make informed decisions. In partnership with another local independent journo, the “Nashville Noticias,” it published a story in May about Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus, a pregnant Guatemalan illegal immigrant who was arrested by Immigration and Customers Enforcement (ICE) in Tennessee, then sent to an ICE facility in Louisiana.
According to the publication, because she did not receive proper prenatal care while incarcerated, Monterroso-Lemus suffered a miscarriage.
On Mother’s Day this year, Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus found herself alone in Guatemala, a country she hadn’t called home in more than a decade. At 38, the once-vibrant, curly-haired woman seemed withered and shaken.
After she was arrested by ICE in Lenoir City, she ended up at the Richwood Correctional Center in Louisiana, where she experienced the unimaginable. After pleading for medical help for days, she lost her mid-term pregnancy.
“I had him inside here for three days, in this Louisiana facility, my baby dead in my stomach, inside my stomach for three days, dead,” she said.
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