Colorlines reports:
BEHIND THE THICK GLASS THAT RUNS THE LENGTH of the Yuba County Jail's visitation corridor, Tatyana Mitrohina's eyes glisten, and then fill with tears as she recounts the last time she saw her son. "During the visit, he climbed into my arms and fell asleep with his head on my shoulder while I walked around with him," she remembers.Two months after that visit, Mitrohina was sent to the Yuba County Jail in Marysville, California, hours away from her 2-year-old son, who is in foster care. She was convicted on charges that she had hit him. While she does not deny the charges, she does say she had expected to be released from jail and to get counseling and start to rebuild her life with her child. But with the increasing collaboration between local authorities and federal immigration officials, Mitrohina found that she would not get that second chance. The government had slated her to be deported to Russia, the country she left as a teenager.
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Maybe I misunderstood the article but I was under the impression that the women who was being detained is a legal citizen? The commentors were acting like she was illegal. Either way it is heartbreaking to see and mother and her child seperated like that. Everyone seems to forget that most of our family were immigrants somewhere down the line.
This story is so sad..
it should also be paired with the story of Juana DeLaPaz. A pregnant woman who was essentially tortured in TN due to being suspected illegal immigrant.
full story here http://politicalsalsa.blogspot.com/2008/07/abu-ghraib-and-guantanamo-come-to.html
- While in detention on 7/5/08, her "water broke" at approximately10 p.m and she was taken by ambulance to General Hospital about an hour later. She gave birth on 7/6/08 at 1:03 a.m. She received excellent and compassionate care at Nashville General.
During her stay there, the guard (I believe it to have been sheriff's personnel -- wore a "green uniform") disconnected the phone so that she could make no outgoing calls. She did not see her husband the entire time she was there. She was ankle-cuffed to the bed at all times (except when she was released to take a bathroom break).
On the first hour after admission, her right hand and left ankle were cuffed to the bed. After the baby delivered, she spent the rest of the day uncuffed. That night, her ankle cuff was reattached and stayed for the duration. When she had to go to the bathroom for personal hygeine as directed by the nurse, she shuffled to the bathroom with both feet shackled to each other.
When the nurse requested the cuffs be removed to enable a better job of self-administering personal hygeine, the guard refused. The nurse became upset, but the guard said, "I'm just doing my job". She was discharged on 7/8 at 4 p.m.
The nurse gave her a breast pump, but the sheriff's guard refused to let her use it or take it with her from the hospital.
- Ms. DeLaPaz was returned to jail. She was released at 3 a.m. Thursday -- ending eight days of shocking treatment.
Maybe I misunderstood the article but I was under the impression that the women who was being detained is a legal citizen? The commentors were acting like she was illegal.
She is neither. It says she has a green card, which would make her a legal resident, but not a citizen.
Thanks for the clarification Alice. :)
She's an admitted abuser of her kids, right?
No sympathy at all. Abusers can go rot for all I care. I see this as no different than some domestic abuser who has a partner asking for them to be released from jail or whatever. You use violence on your family I don't care if it's you wife, your husband, your lover, or your kids you can go piss up a rope.
Seriously, someone who wants to defend this person please explain to me how this is different than any other kind of domestic abuse?