Days after federal immigration agents detained Cary Lopez Alvarado, a 23-year-old Los Angeles native and U.S. citizen, she gave birth to a baby girl.

Lopez Alvarado and her now 3-month-old child are among some Americans who have been caught in the middle of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement and forced to prove their citizenship to gain their release from detention.

"And they told me, OK, your baby is gonna be born here, but you're from Mexico, right?" Alvarado recounted of the June arrest to CBS News. "And I told them like, 'No, I was born here and I speak English.'"

Alvarado says she was handcuffed and detained for over eight hours with a chain around her belly. Once she was released, Alvarado says she went straight to the hospital with cuts and bruises. She wa

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