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Chinese Woman Miscarries During Deportation
News Digest, By Cao Jian, translated by Eugenia Chien,
World Journal, Feb 11, 2006


NEW YORK – A Chinese woman pregnant with twins suffered a miscarriage after federal agents tried to forcibly deport her at John F. Kennedy Airport, reports the Chinese-language World Journal.

Jiang Zhen-Xing, who was three-months pregnant, and her husband Zhang Tian-Xia were at a 9 a.m. appointment on Feb. 7 with an immigration official in Philadelphia, where the couple had lived illegally for 11 years.

While her husband was waiting outside the office, Jiang was told that she would be deported.

Two uniformed immigration officers hustled Jiang to the back of the building and forced her into a van.

Jiang complained of pain in her abdomen en route to the airport, but immigration officers ignored her request for medical attention. She had not eaten all day.

When Jiang arrived at the John F. Kennedy airport in New York at 1 p.m., she asked immigration officers to call an ambulance but was again denied. The officers told her there was nothing wrong with her and that they were going to deport her.

Jiang said she told immigration officials she was pregnant and wanted to have the babies here. After the babies are born, she told them, she would leave the United States voluntarily. Immigration officials told her that they knew she was pregnant and that was the reason she is being deported. (Children born here everntually can become U.S. citizens.)

Jiang was not taken to the Jamaica Hospital in Queens until hours later. When she arrived at the hospital, both fetuses had lost their heartbeats.

Zhang, who had been waiting for his wife at the Philadelphia immigration office all day, received a phone call from her at 4 p.m.. She told him that she had already been taken to the airport.

“She was telling me that her stomach was hurting very much,â€