Because of the response from readers of this blog and reporting by The New York Times, Metro Nashville Sheriff Daron Hall has been forced to address the torture of Juana Villegas (DeLaPaz) and her newborn son by his department.
Yesterday, he claimed he would make a "dramatic" change in how pregnant inmates under his custody would be treated during labor and childbirth.
Yet his supposed change in policy would not have benefitted Mrs. Villegas or her newborn. Nor does it even address separating a child from its mother in the crucual first days following birth when the newborn needs mother's milk to build the immunity system.
Still Hall maintains that his department followed proper procedure under the old rules. This politician refuses to acknowledge the truth.
Villegas' attorney wants to see the supposed new policy in print, not from the mouth of a man who misrepresented the intent of the 287g deportation program in the first place. In writing, that policy will still show the sheriff's department has the discretion to do as it wants. Its judgment already has been shown to be deeply flawed and grossly inhumane. So Hall's annoucement amounts to nothing new.
Sorry, sheriff, but we're not so easily fooled. To readers of this blog, keep your interest high and your e-mails coming. And be sure to boycott Nashville as a place to spend your tourism dollars, hold your conventions and buy products made here, particularly country music.
You've forced the sheriff to at least comment in public about Mrs. Villegas' torture. Keep up the pressure and spread the word about the boycott. And watch this blog for the next shoe to drop -- a federal civil rights lawsuit against Nashville officials who stil refuse to do the right and humane thing.
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Now ILLEGAL (ILLEGAL) crooks and criminals who violate our laws are going to bring a LAW suit against an American who is charged with upholding our laws!!!
Thats rich. Somebody should write a country song about it.
Yeah by all means you people boycott Nashville and country music. I can just imagine what great country music fans you have been in the past (salsa). Yeah right.
Please do by all means stay out of Nashville. Boycott Nashville and while you're at it boycott the entire state of Tennessee and the United States of America.
We will be eternally grateful to you. Just stay the hell away.
Now a word or two about obeying the law and thereby remaining out of the system.
If you stay in your own damn country and stop invading ours then you might not land in the calaboose in the first place.
But if you do land there then I will support the local law enforcement and I will support the Sheriff who is merely doing his job.
What difference does it make to the Anglos if you have your brats in our jails or in our hospitals. We have to pay for kids you can't afford anyway don't we.
Take some advice and stay the hell out of our country if you don't like our jails. WE DON'T WANT YOUR KIDS OR YOU.
Now please tell us where we can contact this sheriff and thank him for the great job he is doing and encourage him to persevere.
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