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Driving While Pregnant, Immigrant Lands Woman In Jail

By Rachel Roth, RH Reality Check

July 23, 2008 - 7:00am

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A number of local and county police departments are now allowed to arrest people for immigration violations. In Tennessee, a pregnant, undocumented immigrant woman was arrested for driving without a license and gave birth, mostly shackled, in jail focusing new attention on local immigration enforcement.

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Immigrant Workers Tell of Abuses at Iowa Plant

By Emily Douglas

May 23, 2008 - 10:32am

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Federal immigration officials raided a slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa, last week, and as advocates have interviewed immigrant workers at the processing plant, stories of quid pro quo sexual abuse have emerged.

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