Monday, August 31, 2009

Baby Taken Away From Mother Because She Can't Speak English

"The Mississippi Department of Human Services (DHS) recently ruled that a woman was an unfit mother because she can't speak English. The DHS declared that the inability to speak English, "placed her unborn child in danger and will place the baby in danger in the future."
Baltazar Cruz is a 34-year-old women from the Oaxaca region of Mexico. She is from a small village of 1,500 people, almost all of them Chatino Indians like herself. Cruz, who was raised speaking Chatino, speaks only a little bit of Spanish and no English..."
http://www.latina.com/lifestyle/news-politics/baby-taken-away-mother-because-she-cant-speak-english

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