Mexican immigrant sues after newborn seized by Mississippi agency

By Jack Elliott Jr., Associated Press/San Jose Mercury News

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge says a Mexican woman can proceed with a lawsuit against Mississippi’s welfare agency and others accusing them of trying to wrest away a newborn girl she delivered while in the U.S. illegally.

(The woman) had been interviewed by a hospital interpreter soon after giving birth. The interpreter spoke Spanish but not Chatino, a dialect indigenous to Cruz’s native Oaxaca region of rural Mexico, the group’s lawsuit alleges.

After talking with Cruz, the interpreter told one of the immigrant’s relatives that Cruz was trading sex for housing and wanted to give the child up for adoption, according to the lawsuit. Cruz said in court papers that she tried to explain to the interpreter that she worked in a Chinese restaurant and lived in an apartment.

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