Thread: TN- Immigrant, Pregnant, Is Jailed Under Pact

Immigrant, Pregnant, Is Jailed Under Pact

By JULIA PRESTON
Published: July 20, 2008
It started when Juana Villegas, an illegal immigrant from Mexico who was nine months pregnant, was pulled over by a police officer in a Nashville suburb for a routine traffic violation.

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Josh Anderson for The New York Times
Juana Villegas and 2-week-old son in her lawyer’s office Thursday in Nashville. Mother and son had been separated for two days.
By the time Mrs. Villegas was released from the county jail six days later, she had gone through labor with a sheriff’s officer standing guard in her hospital room, where one of her feet was cuffed to the bed most of the time. County officers barred her from seeing or speaking with her husband.

After she was discharged from the hospital, Mrs. Villegas was separated from her nursing infant for two days and barred from taking a breast pump into the jail, her lawyer and a doctor familiar with the case said. Her breasts became infected, and the newborn boy developed jaundice, they said.

Mrs. Villegas’s arrest has focused new attention on a cooperation agreement signed in April 2007 between federal immigration authorities and Davidson County, which shares a consolidated government with Nashville, that gave immigration enforcement powers to county officers. It is one of 57 agreements, known formally as 287G, that the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has signed in the last two years with county and local police departments across the country under a rapidly expanding program.

Nashville officials have praised the agreement as a successful partnership between local and federal government.

“We are able to identify and report individuals who are here illegally and have been charged with a criminal offense, while at the same time remaining a friendly and open city to our new legal residents,â€

How many freakin papers are going to do a story on this illegal invader and her self-proclaimed tragedy of not being given a breast pump because she was an illegal invader, already having been once deported from this country...

The MSM makes me sick!

How many freakin papers are going to do a story on this illegal invader and her self-proclaimed tragedy of not being given a breast pump because she was an illegal invader, already having been once deported from this country...

I'm a legal law abiding citizen and no-one gave me one. That's what formula was for. I didn't even get free boiled cabbage leaves or asprins or any other medication for engourgement for nothing.

I don't mean to be cruel but does Mexico offer these things....even for their law abiding citizens?

Earlier related thread at
http://www.alipac.us/ftopic-123400-0.html

[b]“I felt like they were treating me like a criminal person,â€