Nursing Nashville mom reunited with kids 3 months after ICE arrest

By: Anita Wadhwani

Outlets: Tennessee Lookout

Published: October 1, 2026

Words: 1,117

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 2 days ago

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By the time she was released from a Louisiana immigrant detention center, a Nashville mother of two could no longer breastfeed her young daughters. Her milk had dried up.

An asylum seeker from Guatemala, she had not seen or spoken with her children since being detained by immigration agents at her home on May 19 as she was packing them into the car to head to an early morning doctor’s appointment.

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