US moving pregnant immigrant girls to Texas to avoid providing abortions, critics say

A demonstration and vigil outside the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, on 28 January 28. Photograph: Moises Avila/AFP/Getty Images

All unaccompanied immigrant children who are pregnant, many by rape, are being moved to a single facility in Texas in order to avoid providing abortion services in a significant human rights violation, critics say.

As detainees are frequently moved across state lines quickly, often to red states like Texas, pregnant people are facing challenges accessing reproductive health care in detention centers.