All excited to be let in once they think Biden's seated.
Posted on 11/27/2020 12:30:58 PM PST by karpov
MATAMOROS, Mexico — Griselda was 38 weeks pregnant when she sneaked across the Rio Grande into the United States late one night last year. She started having contractions in a Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas, and was taken to a hospital where the medical staff gave her an injection to calm her pain and stop her from going into early labor.
Two days later, she was on a crowded bus back to Mexico, moving into a tent camp with hundreds of other migrants who were waiting for permission to enter the United States. When she finally gave birth 10 days later, her tiny daughter joined her there until a local shelter made room for them.
The wide-ranging new controls on immigration put into place under the Trump administration have made it harder for migrants of all kinds to cross the Southern border, but they have been particularly difficult for pregnant women, who often arrive at the border after arduous journeys, in a state of exhaustion.
Previously, many such women would be allowed to petition for asylum and give birth in safety in the United States while their cases were being considered. But most now, like Griselda, are sent swiftly back to Mexico to take their chances in crowded shelters and filthy tent camps. Some are held in U.S. detention facilities for months.
In a petition to the federal courts last year, the American Civil Liberties Union said it had interviewed 18 migrant women who had been detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and returned to Mexico. All were facing serious worries over how to give birth safely and keep their babies healthy.
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Still, no tears from me. Why should the US citizens pay for her child. Let her go through the legal process if she wants entry. Better still, stay in Mexico and work to make your gov’t more responsive to its peoples’ needs.
What about Americans in a similar state? Shouldn’t Americans be given priority? And no, we do not have unlimited resources.
In violation of the koomOh stay at home edict?
“Griselda was 38 weeks pregnant when she sneaked across the Rio Grande into the United States late one night last year. She started having contractions in a Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas, and was taken to a hospital where the medical staff gave her an injection to calm her pain and stop her from going into early labor.”
LOL, how can a 38 week pregnancy result in early labor?
Boo freakin’ hoo.
Bottom line: The US was compassionate to ease her pregnancy problem. Once gone, she was shipped of to a “camp” to await deportation. Her problem and our compassion. So sad - too bad she didn’t get to drop her kid in the US and give her all she desired from us tax-payers.
They’re already piling up at the border to be let in once they think he’s seated.
Anchor baby plan didn’t work.
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She thought she would have an anchor baby. Hopefully, the baby will be born in Mexico where it would normally be born. She can apply to come here legally. Where is the father, by the way?
Where are half of Americas fathers?
All excited to be let in once they think Biden's seated.
“and give birth in safety in the United States”
IOW Griselda wants to decide who will be an American citizen, not the Americans.
What country allows foreign nationals to decide who their citizens will be?
This illegal alien baby thing is disgusting. Don’t allow them to be citizens! Get OUT!!!
Don’t want trouble, Griselda? Don’t break the law.
Much less how can a 38 week pregnant woman 'sneak' anywhere? /sarc off
Where are half of Americas fathers?
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Is it that high here? That’s ridiculous.
I thought that Mexicans value families and children more than we do. For example, the abortion rate is much lower there than here: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/abortion-rates-by-country
NEWS FLASH
Pregnant women should avoid physically demanding travel.
Someone should tell the Times' staff.
Women like this woman have been gaming the system for
decades. The NYT didn't know.
Guess she'll have to get pregnant again and await a purported Biden administration. Have fun waiting in Mexico, chica...
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