Guatemalan mother gives birth to a baby girl inside a CBP station a HALF HOUR after she was detained with her family after illegally crossing the Mexico-United States border
- A 27-year-old woman from Guatemala gave birth to a girl at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection station in California on Sunday
- According to CBP, the Central American migrant went into labor after she was detained with her husband and two children after unlawfully entering the U.S.
- The woman and her family were apprehended at 2:30pm local time and went into labor approximately 3pm while undergoing a routine medical exam
- Both the mother and baby are in stable condition at a local hospital
A Central American woman went into labor at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection station in California a half hour after she and her family were detained Sunday.
The pregnant 27-year-old, a native of Guatemala, was apprehended at 2:30pm local time with her husband and two children after they unlawfully crossed the Mexico-United States border.
According to CBP, the arresting agent noticed that the woman was pregnant, but ‘she did not appear to be in distress and did not request any medical attention’.
The border agent then transferred the family to the San Diego sector station in Chula Vista for processing.
A married Guatemalan mother-of-two went into labor and gave birth to a baby girl inside a CBP station in California just a half hour after they were detained after crossing the Mexico-United States border. Pictured above are migrants receiving food after they surrendered to CBP agents in El Paso, Texas, on March 22, 2019
While undergoing a routine medical assessment, the woman then alerted the on-site medical physicians that she was having abdominal pains.
CBP said that its medical staff saw that the undocumented migrant woman was going into labor and set up an area for her to give birth.
The baby was born at approximately 3pm. Both the mother and baby were rushed to a local hospital where they remain in stable condition.
‘Thanks to the medical resources available in our stations, this woman and her child were well cared for and received immediate medical attention,’ Chief Patrol Agent Aaron Heitke said. ‘Our agents are well trained to manage the unexpected, and I’m proud of the work they did in caring for this mother’.
Since the start of fiscal year 2020, CBP has reported 33 cases of pregnancy-related hospital visits in the San Diego sector, which has 24-hour medical staff available at four of its six stations dating back to July 2019.