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People who are in the country illegally take many risks.\u00a0 They risk being deported and not allowed back into the country.\u00a0 They risk not being able to take advantage of many aspects of the financial market for fear of being deported.\u00a0 They often risk their lives to get into America in the first place.\u00a0 And while it may seem reasonable for them to be arrested because they have entered the country illegally, that doesn’t mean they should be mistreated by the government while in detention.\u00a0 Such was the case with Juana Villegas, as the New York Times reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n While in custody she went into labor, and was not permitted to see her husband in the delivery room.\u00a0 After the birth she was not permitted to breast feed her child or to have a breast pump.\u00a0 It is generally believed that breast fed babies are able to retain their mothers’ immunities longer than those who use formula.\u00a0 Many<\/a> branches of our own government encourage<\/a> breast feeding.\u00a0 And so by unnecessarily separating the mother from the child, the police effectively harmed the child, who is an American citizen and is eligible for social assistance.\u00a0 The child having already become sick once, is now costing Tennessee taxpayers.<\/p>\n This is all as a result of a program called 287G that turns police officers into immigration agents.\u00a0 The behavior of the police in Tennessee is precisely the result of design and desire of the Bush Administration.\u00a0 This is sad, because although this president has many flaws, one of his supposed bright spots was to be immigration reform.\u00a0 Unfortunately even there matters have gotten worse, as a fence is erected along the California border, and children suffer because of stupid policies such as that of this town in Tennesee.<\/p>\n One of the many remarkably stupid things in Mrs. Villegas’ case was the absurd statement made by the corrections official that they routinely bar medical equipment like a breast pump from a jail.\u00a0 It demonstrates either ignorance of the benefits, incompetence at being able to service inmates’ medical needs, blindness to the fact that an illegal immigrant is not the sort that is going to turn a breast pump into a bong, or all of the above.\u00a0 I wonder if they keep walking sticks away from the blind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" People who are in the country illegally take many risks.\u00a0 They risk being deported and not allowed back into the country.\u00a0 They risk not being able to take advantage of many aspects of the financial market for fear of being deported.\u00a0 They often risk their lives to get into America in the first place.\u00a0 And … Continue reading “\u201cLaw Enforcement\u201d Stupidity Harms People”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,4,15],"tags":[82,81,79,80],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanity","category-politics","category-stupid-stuff","tag-human-rights","tag-law-enforcement","tag-stupid","tag-tennessee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}