Posted on 08/19/2011 10:04:13 PM PDT by Libloather
Jury cannot be told plaintiff undocumented
Published: Aug. 17, 2011 at 6:53 PM
NASHVILLE, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- A jury seated to determine civil damages cannot be told a woman who was shackled while she had a baby in Tennessee is an illegal immigrant, a U.S. judge says.
The judge also barred the Davidson County Sheriff's Office from using two expert witnesses, The (Nashville) Tennessean reported. The witnesses were expected to testify they believe any anguish Juana Villegas suffered during the delivery three years ago came from fear of being deported.
Villegas was near her due date when she was stopped for a traffic violation and then held because of her immigration status. U.S. District Judge William J. Haynes Jr. has already ruled her rights were violated by being forced to give birth while chained down and by not being allowed a breast pump while she was imprisoned.
"The issue of deportation and immigration is too volatile," Haynes said in his ruling Tuesday on the defense's expert witnesses.
Never, ever pass up a chance to support an illegal from south of the border.
Oh I s’pose the next flash of brilliance from the ACLU led courts will be that Jury’s will not be allowed to consider any
plaintiff as being charged with any crimes.After all there is no difference between the criminal and the attorney representing them.Only the Country and the christian can be blamed.
Sounds like SOP for most hospitals towards birthing mothers.
The failure of the Federal Government to protect the US borders from foreign invasion and its inability to oversee immigration is creating a new generation of xenophobes.
The hatred being spewed on a Christian site (FR) is disturbing. We should hate the crime/sin and love the sinner(s) - but our government is purposefully making it impossible.
Judge Haynes is an African-American named by Bill Clinton in 1999. Before becoming a judge he spent all of his time in the public sector. It figures.
In Mexico they don’t shackle and deport illegal aliens from South America. They just kill them and leave them in the desert.
Looks like she won the lottery. We’re finished.
And there in lies the problem. Children born to foreign diplomats aren’t citizens. “Birthright citizenship’’ is a mis-interpretation of the 14th. Amendment and needs to be changed. You’re on the hook for this pay-out, to this woman, we all are.
“I would be very careful to not laud the marginally humane treatment of illegals because if we do then the same treatment will be soon provided to all US citizens.”
Two generations too late - the poison fruit of liberalism as spread throughout the populace thanks to commie unions in the schools and elsewhere, and the results of that commie education becoming AgencyPersons.
“And there in lies the problem. Children born to foreign diplomats aren’t citizens. “Birthright citizenship’’ is a mis-interpretation of the 14th. Amendment and needs to be changed.”
And there was no indication that the woman in this article was a foreign diplomat and thus her child is a US citizen and no court is going to interpret, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States...” in a manner which would deny citizenship to those who were born here.
“Never, ever pass up a chance to support an illegal from south of the border.”
I do not support illegal aliens from south of the border of from any other country. However, I do understand that the child in the story is a US citizen and that his mother does have certain constitutional rights while in the US.
I didn’t say she was a foreign diplomat. I was saying the children born to them here aren’t automatically citizens and the whole birthright citizenship is a mis-interpretation of the 14th. Amendment. That woman is ‘’subject to the jurisdiction thereof..’’, that being Mexico.
Her immigration status had everything to do with it, and why are we bending over to aid illegals stealing from this country?
And what kind of sleazy lawyer would take this case? He should be deported along with this thief!!
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