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Baltazar Cruz's case has been taken up by the Mississippi Immigrants' Rights Alliance (MIRA) and the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), whose lawyers say they can't comment on its specifics because of a judge's gag order. But Mary Bauer, the SPLC's legal director, says that on a general level, any notion that a mother can lose custody of a child because she doesn't speak a particular language "is a fundamentally outrageous violation of human rights." (Read "When Motherhood Gets You Jail Time...
...California court took custody of the U.S.-born twin babies of another indigenous, undocumented migrant from Oaxaca. After she was deported, the Oaxaca state government's Institute for Attention to Migrants fought successfully to have the twins repatriated to her in Mexico this summer. In such cases, says the SPLC's Bauer, a lack of interpreters is a key factor. When a mother can't follow the proceedings, "she looks unresponsive, and that conveys to a judge a lack of interest in the child, which is clearly not the case," she says. She also argues it's hard enough...
George W. Bush's insistence on a new guest-worker program as part of any immigration reform has infuriated many conservatives, but it is also sounding alarm bells among some immigrant-rights advocates. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) argues that many guest workers already in the U.S. are being cruelly exploited--sometimes in government jobs--and fears that any expansion will lead to more instances of what Mary Bauer, an SPLC lawyer, calls "indentured servitude...
...last year, according to figures from the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Alabama-based human-rights group. Dozens of websites that became infamous after the Oklahoma City bombing have gone blank. "Tens of thousands of people got bored waiting for the revolution that never came," says SPLC spokesman Mark Potok...
Lawsuits against the more extreme groups have also taken their toll. Last October, in a case brought by the SPLC, the Aryan Nations white-supremacist group in northern Idaho lost its 20-acre compound near Coeur d'Alene. The Aryans are planning a parade with armed guards through the town this July, but police expect antimilitia protesters to outnumber marchers...