Did a woman in Florida miscarry after being thrown to the ground by ice agents

Checked on February 1, 2026
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Executive summary

No credible, contemporaneous reporting in the documents provided shows that a woman in Florida miscarried after being thrown to the ground by ICE agents; the sources do document multiple cases of pregnant detainees suffering miscarriages, bleeding, shackling and alleged neglect in ICE custody—primarily in Louisiana, Georgia and other facilities—but none of the cited reports describe an incident in Florida in which an agent is reported to have physically thrown a pregnant woman to the ground and caused a miscarriage [1] [2] [3].

1. What the reporting does show about miscarriages and mistreatment in ICE custody

Investigative coverage and letters from civil-rights groups document that over a dozen pregnant women held by ICE reported miscarriages, heavy bleeding, shackling during transport and what advocates describe as delayed or inadequate medical care; those accounts are centered on detention centers in Basile, Louisiana and Lumpkin, Georgia and include named accounts such as “Lucia,” who bled heavily, required a blood transfusion and was told at a hospital she had miscarried [1] [2] [3].

2. What the reporting does not show about the specific Florida allegation

None of the provided articles or advocacy letters include an account that matches the claim that ICE agents in Florida threw a pregnant woman to the ground and that action directly caused a miscarriage; the reporting instead catalogs neglectful care, shackling and detention of pregnant people in multiple facilities but does not allege an on-scene physical assault in Florida that resulted in miscarriage [1] [2] [4].

3. Conflicting narratives and official pushback

The Department of Homeland Security has publicly disputed certain individual claims about withheld care, releasing statements saying it provided full prenatal and medical care to at least one woman who later alleged lack of treatment and pregnancy loss—DHS named Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus and asserted documentation showed care was provided [5]. Civil-rights organizations and multiple news outlets, however, continue to collect first-person accounts and legal complaints alleging patterns of detention and substandard obstetric care that, they say, violate agency guidance intended to limit detention of pregnant people [6] [1] [7].

4. Patterns that make the Florida allegation plausible but unverified

Advocates and several news investigations report systemic problems—detention of people who informed authorities they were pregnant, shackling during transport, solitary confinement, lack of interpretation in medical encounters, and infections after miscarriages—which together create a credible context in which abuse or medical neglect could lead to pregnancy loss; that context makes allegations of on-site violence plausible to investigate, but plausibility is not proof of the specific Florida-resident, thrown-to-ground claim, which the materials do not document [1] [8] [9].

5. Evidence standards and limits of the available sources

The documents provided include detailed first-person interviews, advocacy letters, and agency statements, but they do not contain police/medical records or an ICE report confirming a Florida incident in which an agent allegedly threw a pregnant woman to the ground and caused a miscarriage; absent such primary-source documentation or a contemporaneous news account naming the Florida incident, the claim cannot be verified from these sources [1] [2] [5].

6. Bottom line and recommended next steps for verification

Based on the reporting supplied, the accurate statement is that pregnant women in ICE custody have reported miscarriages and mistreatment in several facilities and that advocates and lawmakers are calling for investigations and policy changes, but there is no corroborated report here that an ICE agent in Florida threw a woman to the ground and caused her to miscarry; confirming or disproving that specific allegation would require either contemporaneous local reporting, medical records, law-enforcement documentation, body‑camera or surveillance footage, or an ICE internal report not included among the provided sources [1] [2] [7].

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