... you've still got to agree this is rather fucked up, right?
U.S. immigration officials said they have enacted a new policy to show greater consideration for breast-feeding mothers, days after authorities arrested a Honduran woman in Ohio on an immigration violation and separated her from her crying baby.Sayda Umanzor, 27, admitted to being in the United States illegally when sheriff's deputies and federal agents knocked on the door of a house in Conneaut, Ohio, on Oct. 26.
Umanzor was breast-feeding her 9-month-old daughter, Brittany, at the time, and the baby cried as her parents were led away.
"It was like a piece of me was torn away," Umanzor said Thursday, speaking through an interpreter.
The baby cried incessantly over the next several days as she went without breast milk and Umanzor suffered soreness from engorged breasts.
Greg Palmore, a spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, said the agency approved Wednesday a new policy to address the needs of breast-feeding mothers.
"It basically ensures that you take humanitarian issues involving nursing moms into consideration," he said Friday. "It also ensures we make contact with state social service agencies to address caregiver issues."
Nursing or not, babies are dependent on their parents. You can't just tear them apart like that. Talk about the punishment not fitting the crime...
