A breastfeeding mom is still being held in an ICE facility 12 days after being detained, attorneys say
Hollie Silverman
By Hollie Silverman, CNN
Updated 9:10 AM ET, Mon August 19, 2019
CNN)Maria Domingo-Garcia left for work 12 days ago, and she hasn't been home.
The mother of three has been separated from her 4-month-old daughter -- who she still breastfeeds -- since being picked up during a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid at Koch Foods in Morton, Mississippi.
Domingo-Garcia was among the 680 undocumented immigrants detained August 7 in raids, the most in the agency's history, at seven food processing plants across the central part of the state.
She's being held at a facility in Jena, Louisiana, which is nearly 200 miles from Morton.
When a woman is breastfeeding, her body continues to produce milk that needs to be expressed or it can cause pain and swelling.
In a video posted online by The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi, Domingo-Garcia's husband tried to bottle-feed the crying infant as he explained that he has friends in the area but no family to help care for the children.
He has been trying to take the kids' minds off the situation, he told the newspaper.
"They go to the park and relax so they will not feel the absence of the mom," said Father Roberto Mena of St. Michael's Catholic Church in Forest, Mississippi, interpreting for the father.
"He has another boy who also goes to school, so every time he comes from school he asks, 'What is the situation of the mom?'" Mena said.
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