Surveillance video shows Maria Del Carmen-Venegas, nine months pregnant, crying on the phone.
Her husband, Joel Arrona-Lara, was arrested by immigration officials at a gas station in California while driving to the hospital for their child's birth.
Maria had to drive herself to the hospital for her scheduled C-Section.
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