WUNRN
Restore Fairness Campaign for
Immigration & Racial Justice
Shackled & Detained - Video
Pregnant Immigrant Rights
Restore Fairness Campaign
is pleased to announce that the Nashville, Tennessee Sheriff's office
has
been found guilty of violating the Constitutional rights of Juana Villegas,
a pregnant immigrant woman who was inhumanely shackled during labor and denied
proper treatment after a traffic stop, of which she was later cleared.
Back in 2008, through
documentary and our interactive experience, Homeland
Guantanamos, we put a face to Juana Villegas's story. Because of an
agreement between local police and federal immigration authorities, called 287g,
she was picked up, detained and shackled during labor. She was not
allowed to use a breast pump to nurse her newborn child. Villegas said,
"The nurse brought me a breast pump... she asked permission for me to take
it to jail... again the sheriff said, no."