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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Get out your tiniest violins.
Griselda could have stayed in her home town, surrounded by relatives, and had her baby delivered by the local midwife.
Is it time yet for the leftist churches to put out their nativity scenes with Pedro, Griselda and Hay-zoos, instead of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph?
Unfortunately, under Biden, they will be welcomed.
Biden? There is no more bipartisan support for an issue in the swamp than open borders.
System worked with just one pain killer shot.
” Griselda was 38 weeks pregnant when she sneaked across the Rio Grande into the United States late one night last year.”
I swear, I’m not responsible!
Boo Hoo dont put that Monkey on my back NYT!
Shes Your Auntie Griselda, Pedro! Not OURS!
Alone, Raped and Freezing — down in Mexheecoooh
then
Pregnant, Exhausted, and Turned Back at the Border
My math is fuzzy. 38 weeks? Isn’t that 9 1/2 months? Was is the gestation of Mexican women?
A month is 4.5 weeks. Normal human gestation is 40 weeks.
Damn phonies!
Sniff...
She won’t need an anchor baby with Biden. And she’ll probably be voting in the 2022 elections, because citizenship won’t matter by then.
Not seeing a problem.
L
The United States is not a maternity ward for human cockroaches wanting to sneak across in the dead of night to squirt out an anchor baby.
Technically a full-term pregnancy lasts for about 280 days or 40 weeks.
Why is it that all these “POOR, STARVING REFUGEES” are so FREAKING FAT?
I never knew that starvation and poor health care made a person look like the GRAFF ZEPPELIN II!
It’s not just the refugees.
Look at all those millions who “go to bed hungry every night” here in the US....
I thought the NYT hated America? Why would they want to put that poor woman through a life in the USA?
They only hate red states
WTF? I've never heard anyone describe a baby as a "Tiny daughter". You mean it wasn't one of those giant 4 foot long babies? I guess to qualify as a, "Tiny daughter" you'd have to be less than 4" long.
This NYT reporter should have been investigating Hunter Biden or perhaps why Daddy Joe has been indicted in Ukraine. Pure fish rap or digital garbage.
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