A 28 -year -old pregnant woman to give birth as soon as next week is talking about being arrested by immigration authorities in California, even after telling the agents that she was an American citizen.
Cary López Alvarado lost his balance when the agents “pushed her” during his arrest during the weekend, Los Angeles told NBC on Monday from a hospital bed. “That was when I leaned forward, trying to protect my stomach.”
López Alvarado told Telemundo 52, NBC’s sister station in Los Angeles: “I was afraid that they would hurt me.”
After being released on Sunday, López Alvarado said he began experiencing acute pain in the stomach and was hospitalized. With only one week before their expiration date, their doctors said they are monitoring López Alvarado and his baby, NBC Los Angeles reported.
The masked men with border patrol uniforms stopped in the private parking lot of a building in the city of Hawthorne in the marked customs vehicles and border protection of the USA. UU. On Sunday, after following a white truck with two undocumented workers, one of which is the partner of López Alvarado.
López Alvarado and his cousin Alberto Sandoval, who is also an American citizen, opened the parking door so that his companion and co -worker could enter. López Alvarado and Sandoval, as well as their partner and the other co -worker were in the building doing maintenance work.
López Alvarado said that she and her cousin believed that the agents would need to demonstrate that they had the order to enter their workplace.
“We were all surrounded,” López Alvarado told NBC Los Angeles on Monday.
López Alvarado captured his interactions with the agents of application of video immigration.
In a video, you can listen to her telling the agents: “I will need to leave. This is a private property.”
While the agents “tried to open hard” Las doors, López Alvarado said that “I was blocking the door” and “I told them they were in private property.”
In another video, one of the agents replies: “Excuse meñe. You are interfering with my arrest. I am doing my job … Can you move?”
“I’m not going to get away,” López Alvarado told the agent.
López Alvarado said the agents told him that the parking lot was not private property and arrested her with her partner, her cousin and her co -worker.
The arrests took place on the same weekend in which the immigration authorities made a series of raids in southern California, arresting dozens of people and causing five consecutive days of protests in Los Angeles.
The witnesses filmed at the time the immigration authorities handcuffed López Alvarado. You can hear shout at the agents that “let her go” and “she is pregnant.”
López Alvarado said the agents told him that he was arrested for trying to obstruct his operation.
“I didn’t resist or anything,” he said. “I can’t defend myself; I’m pregnant.”
During the arrest, López Alvarado said he told the agents that he should win on June 17. The agents replied: “Okay, your baby will be born here, but you are from Mexico, right?” And I told them no, ”he said.
“I was born here,” López Alvarado told Telemundo 52 in Spanish. “I was born in Los Angeles, I was born at the Hollywood hospital.”
López Alvarado was released shortly after the arrest and taken home. They told her that the agents would contact her at a later time on the accusations of obstruction. She said no one gave her any document or appointment in relation to the arrest.
His cousin, Sandoval, was not released because he faces assault charges, his mother María Alvarado, told Telemundo 52. “My son did not attacked. He was attacked. There are videos. There is evidence,” said the mother in Spanish.
The Department of National Security and Customs and Border Protection of the United States.
The Immigration and Customs application recognized the NBC News request, but did not provide any comments.
Mekahlo Medina and Karla Rendon, NBC Los Angeles contributed.
