'During the entire process, she was in pain from giving birth and she felt no choice but to go into Mexico,' the family's attorney said.
Honduran family at the center of the complaint.
It wasn't the first time the family, who lawyers declined to identify, had crossed the border and asked US immigration authorities for protection. The family had crossed in early March near Eagle Pass, Texas, but like thousands of others, they were sent back to Mexico to wait while their US immigration cases were completed under a policy known as the Migrant Protection Protocols .
This family was not even given the chance to have an interview with a US official to assess their fear of persecution, their attorneys said. Meanwhile, the mother was giving birth at the hospital in Chula Vista with Border Patrol officers outside the room, attorneys said. Two days later, the mother and newborn were taken to the border and told to walk into Mexico without any information about her partner and son other than they were also south of the border.
Mitra Ebadolahi, senior staff attorney with the ACLU Foundation of San Diego and Imperial Counties, said the family's expulsion from the US to Mexico without being given an interview to determine whether they would likely be persecuted exemplifies the barriers immigrants face.
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