Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times (TNS)

LOS ANGELES — Lorena Pineda was five months pregnant when masked agents picked her up on a street corner near a San Fernando Home Depot in June.

An agent grabbed her from the vending stand she ran with her sister-in-law and put her against a car. “Be careful,” she told him. “I’m pregnant.”

“Don’t think I am going to let you go because of that,” she recalled him saying.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement policy states agents shouldn’t detain, arrest or hold pregnant, postpartum and nursing mothers for “administrative violation of immigration laws” barring “exceptional circumstances” or if their release is “prohibited by law.”

But pregnant women are increasingly picked up, deported and detained under the Trump administration, advocates and lawyers

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