'Was pressured to sign deportation papers': 8-month pregnant immigrant detained by ICE, family says she was sent back to Nicaragua

Immigration advocates were worried about an 8-month pregnant immigrant who was detained by ICE. They say she was not found in the ICE system. Turns out her husband got a call late Friday from her claiming she was pressured to sign deportation papers and is on her way back to Nicaragua.

The pregnant immigrant that immigration advocates and attorneys have been trying to find has been identified as 27-year-old Leonela Liliana Gomez Hernandez. A day earlier, FOX 11 followed them as they tried to search for her at detention centers.Gomez-Hernandez was picked up by ICE agents near the corner of Vernon and Central avenues in Los Angeles. We are told she had just finished a visit to a medical center, to check on the baby's welfare and was outside waiting for an Uber when ICE agents detained her, Fox News reported.




Her husband says he got a call Friday from her saying she was on her way to Nicaragua. She claimed she was pressured to sign a deportation order after agents supposedly made it clear they could not accommodate her advanced pregnancy. Her phone is out of battery, so she had to borrow another immigrant's cell phone to let him know.

Gomez-Hernandez has been here, according to her husband, for three years, and came to the US seeking asylum. She was supposed to be in court in November, but didn't go because she feared being deported, right on the spot, so far along during her pregnancy.

It's the second time in recent weeks we have been told by detainees' families that they were pressured to sign deportation orders right after they were picked up.

The wife of a food vendor detained at a North Hills church parking lot last week claims he was told by agents that they could get him medical help for his bronchitis if he signed a paper. He allegedly signed papers to be deported.

Immigration advocates helping that family also say they could not find him anywhere in the DHS system and had no idea where he was until he called them from Mexico.