After Losing Freedom, Some Immigrants Face Loss of Custody of Their Children

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CARTHAGE, Mo. — When immigration agents raided a poultry processing plant near here two years ago, they had no idea a little American boy named Carlos would be swept up in the operation.

One of the 136 illegal immigrants detained in the raid was Carlos’s mother, Encarnación Bail Romero, a Guatemalan. A year and a half after she went to jail, a county court terminated Ms. Bail’s rights to her child on grounds of abandonment. Carlos, now 2, was adopted by a local couple.

In his decree, Judge David C. Dally of Circuit Court in Jasper County said the couple made a comfortable living, had rearranged their lives and work schedules to provide Carlos a stable home, and had support from their extended family. By contrast, Judge Dally said, Ms. Bail had little to offer.

“The only certainties in the biological mother’s future,” he wrote, “is that she will remain incarcerated until next year, and that she will be deported thereafter.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/us/23children.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

[CC]

1. Oh great, another way

to steal poor people's kids. Wonder how many other couple's that are desperate for children will be lining up for this judge.

[Tikki]

2. Karma will not do well by Dally...

This is about as low as one can go...


Tikki