A pregnant U.S. citizen is speaking out after she was arrested Wednesday by ICE agents searching for her undocumented husband.
Sabrina Medina, 28, says she feels like she’s being “stalked” after nearly one month since federal agents blew the front door off her Huntington Park home during a raid.
“They are trying to use me as bait for my husband. I told them I don’t talk to him, I don’t have communication with him,” said Medina. “They told me ‘we can make this go all the way all the way, you know.’”
Medina and her undocumented mother were arrested Wednesday after leaving a clinic for her pregnancy check-up. She says she has already been tracked down by federal agents four times, but this is the first time they arrested her.
“They are telling my mom if she doesn’t turn my husband in, they are going to give her federal time,” said Medina.
Video on social media shows the arrests around 3 p.m. outside her health clinic off Alvarado and 8th Street.
Medina says agents roughed her up and pushed her belly against the car. After complaining of abdominal pain, she was taken to a the hospital.
“They could have killed my baby,” said Medina.
ICE arrested the pregnant mother for an outstanding warrant from 12 years ago for a shoplifting charge, according to Medina.
“I guess I have a warrant now…I didn’t know about it,” said Medina.
The first time she encountered agents was June 12. Surveillance video shows armed federal agents bursting into her home looking for her undocumented husband, Jorge Saldana. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem was outside observing the operation.
Medina says her husband was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon a decade ago and served time. Saldana has not been home since the raids started in June, but agents continue to visit Medina.
“I think they are stalking me,” said Medina. “They are violating my human rights.”
Medina says she’s offered to cooperate with agents to safely get her husband in custody, but “they don’t care.”
NBCLA has reached out to DHS and ICE for comment about Medina’s allegations and has not heard back.
Source: NBC Los Angeles
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