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'Was pressured to sign deportation papers': 8-month pregnant immigrant detained by ICE, family says she was sent back to Nicaragua

Immigration advocates were worried about an 8-month pregnant immigrant who was detained by ICE. They say she was not found in the ICE system. Turns out her husband got a call late Friday from her claiming she was pressured to sign deportation papers and is on her way back to Nicaragua.

The pregnant immigrant that immigration advocates and attorneys have been trying to find has been identified as 27-year-old Leonela Liliana Gomez Hernandez. A day earlier, FOX 11 followed them as they tried to search for her at detention centers.Gomez-Hernandez was picked up by ICE agents near the corner of Vernon and Central avenues in Los Angeles. We are told she had just finished a visit to a medical center, to check on the baby's welfare and was outside waiting for an Uber when ICE agents detained her, Fox News reported.

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