Undocumented Pregnant Women Forced To Give Birth While Shackled In Front Of Police

(NOTE: This is what a conservative Christian would most likely say: “If you didn’t want this to happen, then you shouldn’t have broken the law. I know you are coming here just to have a baby so you can be a US citizen. You are destroying the USA.”)

By Marie Diamond on Sep 29, 2011 at 3:20 pm

“Just when you thought the nationwide crackdown on undocumented immigrants couldn’t get any more brutal, the Huffington Post reports that pregnant women in Arizona and Tennessee were detained and forced to give birth while shackled to their hospital beds because they couldn’t produce identification. The shackling of female inmates when they go into labor has been a roundly condemned practice in prisons, but local authorities are now extending that humiliation to non-violent immigrant women whose only crime was being stopped by police without a valid license..” READ MORE

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