The New York Times reports that a young Honduran woman who was breastfeeding her 9 month old baby was arrested in Ohio and awaits deportation. The child was handed over to social services in Ohio. Many groups are outraged at what they call an cruel practice. “The decision to separate a mother from her breast-feeding child drew strong denunciations from Hispanic and women’s health groups. Last week, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency rushed to issue new guidelines on the detention of nursing mothers, allowing them to be released unless they pose a national security risk.” The article goes onto say that about two thirds of all children associated with the raids are American citizens. “Children have no rights to keep family members here because they are citizens,” said Jacqueline Bhabha, a lecturer at Harvard Law School who specializes in citizenship law. When parents face deportation, she said, the law “penalizes United States citizen children by forcing them to choose between their family and their country.” Several studies have been commenced to record the impact of these immigration raids on children of the illegal adults.
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