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Pregnant and Shackled: Hard Labor for Arizona's Immigrants

"Miriam Mendiola-Martinez, an undocumented immigrant charged with using someone else’s identity to work, gave birth to a boy on Dec. 21 at Maricopa Medical Center. After her C-section, she was shackled for two days to her hospital bed. She was not allowed to nurse her baby. And when guards walked her out of the hospital in shackles, she had no idea what officials had done with her child."

VALERIA FERNÁNDEZ for New America Media.

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