By Katie Halper

Americans can breath easy: a major terrorist threat has been averted in the nick of time. When Federal agents from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided a home in
For the eleven days Umanzor was in jail, she was barred from seeing her three children including the baby Brittney who, because she had never eaten anything other than breast milk, ate nothing for three days. Because Umanzor was unable to nurse and express her milk, she experienced painful breast engorgement.
Saida Umanzor, her five-year-old son, and her husband are all under house arrest and await deportation. Brittney and her sister, both born in the U.S.A, will be allowed to stay and live the American Dream their relatives parents and brother don’t deserve.
Because of totally unwarranted outrage around the story, ICE changed its policy on the treatment of nursing women. Luckily ICE isn’t totally capitulating to the immigrantista agenda. An ICE spokeswoman explained: “Parents are putting their children in these difficult situations.” Umanzor put her child in this dangerous situation the second she put her at her breast. If only people who risked their lives entering the country, in part, perhaps, to give their children a better lives, would stop being so selfish and start thinking about their children.
CATEGORIES: Ethics
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OMG.That is complete crap!! How are you going to pluck a nursing infant from it’s mothers breast and not let the infant child see her mother for eleven days?!? This disgusts me. I know she was an alien and all but my god have some class.
OMG is this serious? While i understand the deportation of illegal immigrants is this artical seriously critisizing this mother’s decision to breastfeed her baby? and to remove the child from it’s mother…that’s just horrid. poor baby…poor mother. everything about this story is just sad and that the baby and sister will not be able to join their parents is the crime. Are you saying that a life in social services is better than staying with the parents in their home country? this is crazy!!