Overview

• On June 8 in Hawthorne, California, masked agents in Border Patrol uniforms surrounded a private parking lot and detained 28-year-old Cary López Alvarado during a targeted ICE operation
• López Alvarado told agents she was a U.S. citizen due to give birth on June 17 but was handcuffed on obstruction charges linked to her partner’s arrest
• She was released later that day without any arrest paperwork and sought medical attention after experiencing sharp abdominal pains
• Physicians at a Los Angeles-area hospital are closely monitoring both her and her baby following her hospitalization
• Her detention took place during a series of large-scale Southern California raids that have led to protests and intensified scrutiny of the administration’s deportation plans