The ACLU explores how immigration enforcement severely limits undocumented people’s access to abortions. Because of the state’s extreme abortion ban, Texans in need of abortion care are forced to travel hundreds of miles to the nearest clinic. But on top of distance, time, and expense required, noncitizens and those in mixed-status families in south Texas face an additional obstacle to travel — federal immigration checkpoints and with them, the risk of arrest, detention, and deportation:
https://www.aclu.org/publications/trapped-in-texas-how-federal-and-now-state-immigration-enforcement-traps-people-trying-to-escape-texas-abortion-ban
The ACLU explores how immigration enforcement severely limits undocumented people’s access to abortions. Because of the state’s extreme abortion ban, Texans in need of abortion care are forced to travel hundreds of miles to the nearest clinic. But on top of distance, time, and expense required, noncitizens and those in mixed-status families in south Texas face an additional obstacle to travel — federal immigration checkpoints and with them, the risk of arrest, detention, and deportation
The ACLU explores how immigration enforcement severely limits undocumented people’s access to abortions. Because of the state's extreme abortion ban, Texans in need of abortion care are forced to travel hundreds of miles to the nearest clinic. But on top of distance, time, and expense required, noncitizens and those in mixed-status families in south Texas face an additional obstacle to travel — federal immigration checkpoints and with them, the risk of arrest, detention, and deportation:
https://www.aclu.org/publications/trapped-in-texas-how-federal-and-now-state-immigration-enforcement-traps-people-trying-to-escape-texas-abortion-ban