From MRZine -
Nurses see everything in a day’s work. But at the maternity ward of Nashville General Hospital, nurses caring for an immigrant woman in labor broke down and cried when the sheriff’s deputy guarding the woman refused to remove the shackles chaining her leg to the bed. The undocumented woman was detained by local authorities because of a cooperation agreement between the county sheriff’s department and the immigration enforcement agency, ICE.
Categories: Editorials
Tagged: detained immigrants, Immigrant Rights
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Ana Romera Rivera: Another Death In ICE’s Custody « American Humanity // September 17, 2008 at 7:46 pm
[...] that people are being tortured by ICE and by the prisons they employ. In July a woman was forced to give birth while chained. Who’d think this could happen in the United [...]
Ana Romero Rivera: Another Death In ICE’s Custody « American Humanity // September 17, 2008 at 7:52 pm
[...] that people are being tortured by ICE and by the prisons they employ. In July a woman was forced to give birth while chained. Who’d think this could happen in the United [...]