Apparently in Mississippi she can:
"Cirila Baltazar Cruz comes from the mountainous southern state of Oaxaca, a region of Mexico that makes Appalachia look affluent. To escape the destitution in her village of 1,500 mostly Chatino Indians, Baltazar Cruz, 34, migrated earlier this decade to the U.S., hoping to send money back to two children she'd left in her mother's care. She found work at a Chinese restaurant on Mississippi's Gulf Coast.
But Baltazar Cruz speaks only Chatino, barely any Spanish and no English. Last November, she went to Singing River Hospital in Pascagoula, Miss., where she lives, to give birth to a baby girl, Rubí. According to documents obtained by the Mississippi Clarion-Ledger , the hospital called the state Department of Human Services (DHS), which ruled that Baltazar Cruz was an unfit mother in part because her lack of English "placed her unborn child in danger and will place the baby in danger in the future."
Rubí was taken from Baltazar Cruz, who now faces deportation. In May, a Jackson County judge gave the infant to a couple (it is unclear if for foster care or adoptive purposes) who reportedly live in Ocean Springs. Baltazar Cruz is challenging the ruling in Jackson County Youth Court and hopes that if she is deported she can at least take Rubí back to Mexico with her."
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There has got to be something I'm missing here. There is no way something like this can happen. I mean, what? Because she doesn't speak English?! If she is being deported (and for what) then why can't she take her child back with her? Surely her child would be fine then. If not, why can't her child simply learn English (which is inevitable if she attended public school) here? This is so unbelievably inhumane and ethnocentric that I find it hard to believe.
There has got to be something I'm missing here. There is no way something like this can happen. I mean, what? Because she doesn't speak English?! If she is being deported (and for what) then why can't she take her child back with her? Surely her child would be fine then. If not, why can't her child simply learn English (which is inevitable if she attended public school) here? This is so unbelievably inhumane and ethnocentric that I find it hard to believe.
this is FUCKED up. I hate these people. why can't we just leave these people alone