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Below is the translated transcript, lete know if I made any mistakes and I will correct it.

He had this at the hospital.

That was all that wasn’t.

These have been difficult weeks at the Díaz family home, a house that was looking forward with great happiness to the arrival of Lix André.

His birth was going to be a source of great joy, but weeks before his arrival into this world, his father, Lix Alberto Díaz Carrasco, was intercepted by ICE agents right outside his home.

Lix Alberto Díaz Carrasco spoke to Telemundo News from the ICE detention center.

My door was forced open, and then they began arresting me violently.

Melisa, seven months pregnant, witnessed the arrest, and according to her complaint, was threatened and pushed by the federal agents.

They pushed me and hit my arms.

Did you tell them you were pregnant?

Yes, of course, my belly was already big.

Alberto, who has no criminal record according to his family, was the sole provider.

His pregnant wife was left in charge of their five children and was deeply shaken by the incident.

She says that in the following days, she started feeling unwell and was hospitalized in an emergency.

He told me the baby was dead.

I asked why and he said the baby had suffered from extreme stress.

All she has now are the few belongings of the baby, whose remains are currently in this building, waiting for the family to pay for funeral services.

All I’m asking is that you please give me the chance to leave.

The Department of Homeland Security told Telemundo News that Alberto Díaz had been previously arrested in July 2019 for illegally crossing the country and remains detained awaiting deportation proceedings, but they did not comment on the alleged physical contact between their agents and the pregnant woman.

Now the family is seeking help from the Honduran government to bury the baby they had hoped for so much while their father remains detained.

Francisco Cuevas, Telemundo News.

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    If abortion is murder then surely this will be investigated as a murder right? Riiiiiiight?

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      They would charge the mother. When they use Flock cameras to track people going out of state to get an abortion they don’t charge the abortion clinic that person went to. I suspect DHS will use this same defense.

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    ICE and the people who enabled it are monsters. They need to face justice one day.

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    Can’t wait to hear how the Texas Rangers pursued these ICE Agents to the fullest extent of state law and put out a bounty on them.

    But something tells me that wont happen. It only happens to single women who can be intimidated.

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    Baby wasn’t white so Christian nationalists don’t care churches will say nothing and should be shut down.

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    Were the ICE goons charged with MURDER? Just asking?…….we KNOW the answer because your country is the “ new Nazi Germany!”

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    Im normally not for death penalty but as a partent to be this would be justified here.

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      We might somehow get the wrong guy; somebody who never joined ICE. So long as mistakes exist, the death penalty is a bad idea. Life imprisonment is cheaper too.

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      Just in terms of fundamental fairness it’d be appropriate here. I’m virtually certain Texas has put people to death for assaulting pregnant people and causing miscarriages before.