Family in Crisis: Guatemalan Mother Loses Baby to ICE - Nashville Banner

Read this story in English. On Mother’s Day this year, Iris Dayana Monterroso Lemus found herself alone in Guatemala, a country she hadn’t called home in over a decade. At 38, the once vibrant, curly-haired woman looked withered and despondent. After being arrested by ICE in Lenoir City, Tennessee, in March, she was transferred to the Richwood Correctional Center in Louisiana, where she experienced the unimaginable. After pleading for medical at…