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    Breast-feeding - Agency's treatment of moms may shift

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    Agency's treatment of moms may shift
    Saturday, November 10, 2007 3:34 AM


    CLEVELAND (AP) -- Immigration officials have enacted a policy regarding the humanitarian treatment of breast-feeding mothers days after a woman in northeastern Ohio was arrested on an immigration violation and separated from her crying baby.

    Sayda Umanzor admitted to being in America illegally when deputy sheriffs and federal agents knocked on the door of a house in Conneaut on Oct. 26.

    The 27-year-old woman was breast-feeding her 9-month-old daughter, Brittany, at the time, and the baby cried as her mother and father were led away.

    "It was like a piece of me was torn away," Umanzor said Thursday, speaking through an interpreter.

    Greg Palmore, a spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said the agency had been working on a policy regarding breast-feeding mothers and it was approved Wednesday.

    "It basically ensures that you take humanitarian issues involving nursing moms into consideration," he said yesterday.

    He declined to give further specifics of the policy.

    In Umanzor's case, she was incarcerated initially in Bedford Heights jail. The jail did not know it had a nursing mother until Monday, when Lucia Stone, a Spanish-speaking representative of the La Leche League of Ohio, alerted them, said jail commander William Schultz.

    He said his personnel then accepted a breast pump and tried to work with local Spanish-speaking mothers to get milk to the baby, but the two sides didn't connect.

    Umanzor was transferred to Seneca County jail in Tiffin before immigration lawyer David Leopold secured her release Tuesday night. He argued that it was inhumane to hold a nursing mother and unnecessary to jail a woman whom the immigration agency knew how to find.

    She was permitted to rejoin her children and was fitted with an ankle bracelet that tracks her whereabouts. She is expected to be deported soon.

    Authorities discovered Umanzor, who was ordered deported in 2006 after missing an immigration court hearing, while executing a warrant for her brother-in-law.

    Umanzor's husband, Marcus Antonio Bejarano, also was taken into custody. A local factory worker, he had been deported once before, making it illegal for him to be in the United States, Palmore said. The couple are from Honduras.


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    IT IS UNACCEPTABLE TO RELEASE HER. FIRST, SHE HAD A BABY KNOWING FULL WELL THAT SHE WAS HERE ILLEGALLY. SHE DID THIS WITHOUT REGARD TO WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO HER INFANT DAUGHTER IF SHE WAS DEPORTED. I QUESTION WHETHER SOMEONE LIKE THAT SHOULD EVEN BE ALLOWED TO KEEP THEIR CHILD. IT SEEMS TO ME THAT CPS SHOULD STEP IN AND PROTECT CHILDREN AGAINST THIS TYPE OF CHILD ABUSE.
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    SO?

    WHY couldn't she breastfeed her child inside the detention facility? Ankle bracelet? Puhleeze!! I wonder how long it took her to ditch that thing?

    Accomodations are certainly made for thousands of illegals every day in this country- why not keep mother and child together INSIDE the detention facility while awaiting deportation? After all, they would be in good company, right? All those innocent illegals just here to work and steal the American dream....

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    She'll be nursing this kid when it starts school!

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    Is there something in their culture that makes them think having babies at young ages on the backs of taxpayers is the decent thing to do? I'm so sick of seeing pregnat teens pusing baby carriages and 2 more kids following them. These aren't good people. These are ignorant fools. We need to cut them off as well as their anchor babies. They're bankrupting us. Taxpayers REALLY need to revolt!

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    JUST DEPORT THE MOM AND THE BABY. PROBLEM SOLVED. SHE IS ILLEGAL. IF SHE WERE HERE LEGALLY THEN SHE WOULD HAVE PROOF. WHY DO WE NEED TO GO INTO COURT WITH THIS?
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    This breastfeeding nonsense has gone too far. I've heard from both legal entrants and illegal aliens that it is nothing more than another ploy, another means of trying to hide behind children.

    Quite frankly, I'd believe it.

    It would be interesting to see just what the increase in nursing mothers among the illegal alien population has jumped to since the crackdown started, and also see if it skyrockets now that this "humanitarian" provision has been put into place.
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    A citizen that is a breastfeeding mother can be hauled into city/county jail for trivial things* and receive NO consideration for the health of mother and child in regards to breastfeeding.... why should an illegal alien get any better?

    Preferential treatment strikes again.


    * A court date for a traffic ticket that was missed to due unexpectedly going to labor going to warrant because new mom was dealing with being new mom and didn't remember something as slight as a minor traffic ticket, as a example. Yes, still an infraction, but trivial in the eyes of most.
    I don't care who you are, how you got here, what color you are, what language/dialect you speak... If you didn't get here legally then you don't belong here. Period.

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    Why is breastfeeding an issue only for them?

    Would they not enforce the law against an American who breat feeds?
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