Posted on 10/18/2013 12:00:44 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
A detained Mexican woman who had been shackled to her hospital bed while giving birth in Nashville will receive $490,000 in a settlement and also has the prospect of a resident visa.The monetary settlement, which was approved on Tuesday by the council governing Nashville and Davidson County, Tenn., closes a five-year legal battle that began when the woman, Juana Villegas, was arrested in July 2008 after a traffic stop in a Nashville suburb.
And in an unusual move, a federal judge has urged immigration authorities to give Ms. Villegas a special visa that is generally offered to crime victims. The judge said the visa was in order because of the violation of Ms. Villegas’s civil rights. His finding created a new legal basis for the victims’ visa, said Elliott Ozment, a lawyer who represented Ms. Villegas.
Ms. Villegas, who was nine months pregnant when she was arrested, was in the country illegally. She was detained for six days because of an agreement between Davidson County and federal authorities that gave immigration enforcement powers to sheriffs’ officers.
As a result of that program, jail officers decided to hold her after learning that Ms. Villegas, who has been living in the United States since 1996, had once been deported.
Soon after Ms. Villegas gave birth, she was returned to the jail without her newborn son. A hospital nurse gave her a breast pump, but she was not allowed to take it into the jail and developed a painful breast infection.
In 2011 a federal judge in Tennessee, William J. Haynes Jr., ruled in Ms. Villegas’s favor, finding that jail officers had shown “deliberate indifference” to her medical needs by cuffing her ankle to her hospital bed through most of her labor and during recovery.
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It is time we stop granting special benefits to criminal alien invaders.
GIVING BIRTH is not a time to suddenly become all nazi on this woman....its against all human decency...totally uncalled for and sadistic...
Totally agree with your post....they should have unshackled her ankle during birth....it’s not like she was going to run away...
Just a tiny amount of human decency was needed...
Except this new report LIED. She was shackled when brought into the labor room. She was UNSHACKLED during labor and delivery.
Why don’t we appoint her president as well since she’s obviously been mistreated by the system her whole life?
She needs to be deported. With that money stupidly given to her she can now live very comfortably in a nice big house in mexico.
What happened to the legal concept of not benefiting financially in a lawsuit if you broke the law in that same action?
Put her arse on a bus (in labor) do that kid is born where it belonged.
Which candidate made this phrase popular? I can’t remember.
“One of ‘Life’s Lottery’ Winners!”
That immediately came to mind...
Deport. Deport. Deport.
No woman, whether crazy, illegal, a Klingon or whatever deserves to be restrained during labor and birth, and needs to have her baby with her afterward-anything else is cruel and unnatural-the very thought is probably painful to anyone of my gender who has given birth.
Crap like this makes all who are against allowing illegals to stay here look like Nazis, which doesn’t win friends or influence people-I’m Hispanic, I call illegals by the non-PC term “mojado”, and even I’m appalled...
She does still need to be sent back-and with that much money in Mexico, she can afford to buy a big house in a picturesque mountain village, open a hotel there for tourists, hire some staff to help run it and improve the economy-that money is as much as the national debt of a small third world country anywhere south of here...
Other reports say she was unshackled during childbirth and later afterwards one of her ankles was cuffed to the bed.
She does still need to be sent back-and with that much money in Mexico, she can afford to buy a big house in a picturesque mountain village, open a hotel there for tourists, hire some staff to help run it and improve the economy-that money is as much as the national debt of a small third world country anywhere south of here...
Yes. The dollar does get one more in Mexico. I’ve seen some pretty nice houses for under $150 thousand with beach views on HGTV.
Until a few years ago, some of my relatives who worked for US companies with facilities in Mexico would sign up to work there for a couple years, then come back to the US. The housing available was really nice, although what you are talking about was too touristy to be affordable.
The big hotel chains even offered a nice bonus for their US employees who spoke Spanish to go there on a 2 year contract, doing the same job they did at their hotel in Dallas, or wherever. A couple of my cousins went there for 2 years-after I was widowed, I thought about it, but it was getting dangerous over there-my relatives came back because of that when their contract was up.
Couldn’t do any worse.
2 or 3 forged visas is fine I guess.... ugh
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