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Migrant Taken To Texas Hospital To Give Birth is Now Facing 'Expedited' Deportation

Tucson Medical Center (Credit: Tucson Medical Center)

A Guatemalan mother who gave birth at a Texas hospital this week is now facing "expedited" deportation, with an attorney warning about the health risk such an outcome could pose both to the woman and her child.

The Arizona Daily Star reported that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials have been posted outside the woman's room and are preventing her from speaking to an attorney.

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