India, Jan. 22 -- An eight-month pregnant woman who is in "serious medical distress" is facing deportation from Atlanta International Airport, her attorney told Newsweek. Zharick Daniela Buitrago Ortiz, 21, has been experiencing intense back and abdominal pain, her legal counsel said.

"This is an abuse of a pregnant woman in detention," Anthony Enriquez, an attorney with the Kennedy Human Rights Center representing Buitrago, told the outlet on Wednesday, January 21. "This is an example of ICE acting without any type of compassion for someone who is on the point of labor. And we'd like this to stop immediately."

Ortiz fled Colombia with her family last year and arrived in the US in November. She was accompanied by her mother and two youn...