Pregnant and Shackled: Hard Labor for Arizona's Immigrants
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Pregnant and Shackled: Hard Labor for Arizona's Immigrants
New America Media, News Feature, Valeria Fernández , Posted: Jan 26, 2010
PHOENIX, Ariz.— Miriam Mendiola-Martinez, an undocumented immigrant charged with using someone else’s identity to work, gave birth to a boy on Dec. 21 at Maricopa Medical Center. After her C-section, she was shackled for two days to her hospital bed. She was not allowed to nurse her baby. And when guards walked her out of the hospital in shackles, she had no idea what officials had done with her child.
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New America Media, News Feature, Valeria Fernández , Posted: Jan 26, 2010
PHOENIX, Ariz.— Miriam Mendiola-Martinez, an undocumented immigrant charged with using someone else’s identity to work, gave birth to a boy on Dec. 21 at Maricopa Medical Center. After her C-section, she was shackled for two days to her hospital bed. She was not allowed to nurse her baby. And when guards walked her out of the hospital in shackles, she had no idea what officials had done with her child.
read the rest at
www.NewAmericaMedia.org
www.YouthOutlook.org
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