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Mexico official says discrimination against Mexicans in US increasing

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

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[JURIST] Mexican Director General for Protection of Mexicans Abroad Daniel Hernandez told a Mexico City audience Friday that discrimination against Mexicans in US has increased, specifically citing the case of Cirila Baltazar Cruz, a Mexican immigrant from Oaxaca, who lost custody of her child while in the US because of alleged child neglect. According to documents obtained by the Clarion-Ledger, Cruz lost custody partly because she could not speak any English and thereby placed her child in danger. Other reports have said that a misunderstanding between her and the hospital which led authorities to believe that she was a prostitute contributed to the state intervention. According to the reports, Baltazar Cruz speaks no English and barely any Spanish and speaks Chatino, a language native to her region. In 2005, the Tennessee Judiciary disciplined a Judge after he ordered a Mexican immigrant to learn English or lose custody of her child. Last year, a group of American citizens of Mexican descent filed a lawsuit against the US State Department alleging that they had been denied passports because they were of Mexican descent and had been delivered by midwives.

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on August 29, 2009 (boomark / email).