Can a Mother Lose Her Child Because She Doesn't Speak English?

Time Magazine

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1918941,00.html

 

Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009

 

Can a Mother Lose Her Child Because She Doesn't Speak English?

 

By Tim Padgett with Dolly Mascareñas / Oaxaca

 

Can the U.S. government take a woman's baby from her because she doesn't speak English? That's the latest question to arise in the hothouse debate over illegal immigration, as an undocumented woman from impoverished rural Mexico — who speaks only an obscure indigenous language — fights in a Mississippi court to regain custody of her infant daughter. […]