Friday, September 04, 2009

Can a Mother Lose Her Child Because She Doesn't Speak English?

Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009
Can a Mother Lose Her Child Because She Doesn't Speak English?

By Tim Padgett with Dolly MascareƱas / Oaxaca

Can the U.S. government take a woman's baby from her because she doesn't speak English? That's the latest question to arise in the hothouse debate over illegal immigration, as an undocumented woman from impoverished rural Mexico — who speaks only an obscure indigenous language — fights in a Mississippi court to regain custody of her infant daughter.


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