Everyone on U.S. soil has some constitutional rights; even an illegal alien can't be sentenced to prison without a trial, or tortured to death, or sold into slavery.
As to the question of whether Roe v. Wade applies to illegal aliens, the Government conceded that issue; the dissent in the Court of Appeals bashed the Government for making that concession, but for some reason the Government made it and the majority therefore was entitled to rely on it.
She has broken the law and should be deported.
As I noted upthread, federal law makes it much harder to deport an illegal alien who is an unaccompanied minor than one who is an adult or who arrived with an adult. She hasn't yet had her hearing before an immigration judge, so she is not yet deportable.
Second: Did she come the U.S to have an abortion—does Mexico, a Catholic country, prohibit abortion?
Mexico does not allow abortion. She claims she didn't know she was pregnant until she was examined by U.S. doctors, but that fact may be disputed as the case goes on. (She was 8 weeks pregnant when she came to the U.S.)
One last thought...I am not happy with the idea of an abortion, but at least she didn’t apparently come here to have an anchor baby. This is a bizarre story. There must be more than meets the eye. Does she have an American boyfriend? Does he want her to abort the innocent baby?
She has no friends or relatives in the U.S. (If she had, then, as an unaccompanied minor, she would have been paroled into their custody pending deportation.) She claims she came to the U.S. to escape sexual abuse (apparently by a relative, but the court sealed that part of the record), but that's another fact that remains to be litigated (although a Texas state-court judge believed her, and gave her a judicial bypass on that ground).
Thank you for the clarification, LL.
Sad story all around. Hope she keeps the baby, IMO. Yes, it will cost the taxpayers, but as my father always said, it is better than the alternative.
Perhaps the little boy or girl will grow up to be a productive member of society. We can only pray and keep our fingers crossed.
We need the wall A.S.A.P. to avoid ethical dilemmas like this. Americans are compassionate people, but it does come at a cost.
Thank you for the clarification, LL.
Sad story all around. Hope she keeps the baby, IMO. Yes, it will cost the taxpayers, but as my father always said, it is better than the alternative.
Perhaps the little boy or girl will grow up to be a productive member of society. We can only pray and keep our fingers crossed.
We need the wall A.S.A.P. to avoid ethical dilemmas like this. Americans are compassionate people, but it does come at a cost.
Thank you for the clarification, LL.
Sad story all around. Hope she keeps the baby, IMO. Yes, it will cost the taxpayers, but as my father always said, it is better than the alternative.
Perhaps the little boy or girl will grow up to be a productive member of society. We can only pray and keep our fingers crossed.
We need the wall A.S.A.P. to avoid ethical dilemmas like this. Americans are compassionate people, but it does come at a cost.