Illegal immigrant gives birth in custody with one leg cuffed to her bed

[Marilyn. 340]

the story is explained in more detail if you click on the link..

it mentioned that the baby went into the father's custody..

[Amby 490]

isn't driving without a license an arrestable offense?

[Marilyn. 340]

Marilyn did you bother reading the article I posted..

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...t&p=2036460

I read enough to know it was a load of #######..

[Ggreen 12]

You still fail to recognise that it still doesn't justify ankle-chaining a heavily pregnant woman going into labour. Noone is justifying the woman's "illegalness" or her traffic stop or anything associated with her immigration status or choices.

Exactly.

[Marilyn. 340]

isn't driving without a license an arrestable offense?

it says in the article that it is just a misdemeanor in Tennessee...

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Some more info.

Tim Chavez shares further information based on an interview with DeLaPaz’s family by her attorney - so, yes, this is all third and fourth-hand, but it hasn’t been covered by our local media as far as I’ve seen.

Many have asked why she was pulled over, and according to Tim, the ticket was issued for “careless driving.” She also did not have a driver’s license, and had been initially told to call someone else to drive her and her children home.

“Sgt. Coleman…made pregnant Juana wait in a hot car for an hour. When the other driver arrived, Coleman then told Juana that she didn’t get out of the car into his police vehicle in two seconds he would put her in handcuffs. She told Coleman that she was supposed to deliver in three days, but it made no difference.”

Tim reports that during her ICE interview, it was determined that she had previously undergone deportation a decade prior, so she was kept in jail on the driving without a license charge and an ICE detainment. Then this happened:

On 7/5/08, her “water broke” at approximately 10 p.m and she was taken by ambulance to General Hospital about an hour later. She gave birth on 7/6/08 at 1:03 a.m. She received excellent and compassionate care at Nashville General.

During her stay there, the guard (I believe it to have been sheriff’s personnel — wore a “green uniform”) disconnected the phone so that she could make no outgoing calls. She did not see her husband the entire time she was there. She was ankle-cuffed to the bed at all times (except when she was released to take a bathroom break).After giving birth, DeLaPaz had her ankles recuffed and had this to contend with:

When the nurse requested the cuffs be removed to enable a better job of self-administering personal hygeine, the guard refused. The nurse became upset, but the guard callously said, “I’m just doing my job”. She was discharged on 7/8 at 4 p.m. The nurse gave her a breast pump, but the sheriff’s guard refused to let her use it or take it with her from the hospital.

Two days after giving birth, she was returned to jail.

Chavez has further discussion of how the 287g program, which was “was sold to Davidson County residents two years ago as a way to remove dangerous criminals from the undocumented population of immigrants and their families here,” has contributed to this incident and others, as well as physician commentary on the incident.

http://womenshealthnews.wordpress.com/2008...llegas-delapaz/

[Amby 490]

isn't driving without a license an arrestable offense?

it says in the article that it is just a misdemeanor in Tennessee...

oh ok. I read the article hours ago so I didn't remember. was just curious.

[Heracles 417]

Marilyn did you bother reading the article I posted..

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...t&p=2036460

I read enough to know it was a load of #######..

Which part?

[indianheart 2]

standard practice in hospitals for those in the custody of law enforcement to be handcuffed...sounds like she really wasnt mistreated after all...she was an illegal who after being deported the first time shouldnt have come back!

[pedroh 21]

legal or not, I don't think any woman who is in labour would appreciate very much having a fukcin cuff on her ankle..

for what I read here.. being illegal gives the cops the right to tie her down while she's poppin out a baby.. and some people care more about dogs than actual people who happen to not have a little card that says they're allowed to be here..

and this new study of latinos celebrating drunk driveness impresses me, now I know something more about my culture!! it's weird they didn't teach me that in my social studies classes in college

in Mexico there's a big number of pedophiles who happen to be american.. I think they could make a study and suggest that americans celebrate pedophilia, using the logic of that BS article..

as Caro said.. I also totally deny accepting that latinos celebrate drunk driving..

[Ggreen 12]

standard practice in hospitals for those in the custody of law enforcement to be handcuffed...sounds like she really wasnt mistreated after all...she was an illegal who after being deported the first time shouldnt have come back!

I thought she is a human?!

Edited July 22, 2008 by vjmmbr

[Heracles 417]

Some more info.

She received excellent and compassionate care at Nashville General

Paid for by the American taxpayer.

Edited July 22, 2008 by Aficionado

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

standard practice in hospitals for those in the custody of law enforcement to be handcuffed...sounds like she really wasnt mistreated after all...she was an illegal who after being deported the first time shouldnt have come back!

I thought she was a human?!

human? no, señor, she's mexican.

[Heracles 417]

standard practice in hospitals for those in the custody of law enforcement to be handcuffed...sounds like she really wasnt mistreated after all...she was an illegal who after being deported the first time shouldnt have come back!

I thought she was a human?!

Refer to post 222.

Edited July 22, 2008 by Aficionado

[Peikko 1,575]

It's time for...

mindless outrage!

There, don't we all feel lots better now?