• Title: LOSING A CHILD IN THE TRANSLATION. ALSO, UNIFIED EFFORT FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM.
• Guest: Cirila Baltazar Cruz
• Additional Guests: Vicky Cintra, Rufino Domínguez-Santos, Yolanda Cruz, Francisco Lopez
• Host: Samuel Orozco
• Date: MONDAY, JUNE 1. 2009
• Description: LOSING A CHILD IN THE TRANSLATION. A court in Mississippi is about to terminate the parental rights of a Mexican immigrant woman who also faces the risk of deportation. By court order, the U.S. born child may be given in adoption to a local family. Advoca
• Genre: News
• Location: San Francisco, CA
• Program Number: 5792
• Producer: Samuel Orozco
• Progam Number: 5792
• Publisher: Radio Bilingüe
• Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License
• Subject: Politics, Immigration
• Year: 2009
• Program Name: la_090601.mp3
• Length: 60:42 minutes (55.58 MB)
• Format: Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)

LOSING A CHILD IN THE TRANSLATION. A court in Mississippi is about to terminate the parental rights of a Mexican immigrant woman who also faces the risk of deportation. By court order, the U.S. born child may be given in adoption to a local family. Advocates challenge the process arguing that the woman, a Chatino-speaking migrant from the highlands in Southern Mexico, has not been able to defend herself. She does not speak English or Spanish. The forced-adoption case of Chatina migrant Cirila Baltazar is examined in this program.

Guests:

Cirila Baltazar Cruz, restaurant worker, Biloxi, MS;

Vicky Cintra, Organizing coordinator, Mississippi Immigrant Rights Association, Biloxi, MS, www.yourmira.org;

Rufino Dominguez-Santos, Executive Director, Binational Center for the Development of the Indigenous Communities, Fresno, CA. http://centrobinacional.org;

Yolanda Cruz, Chatino-Spanish Interpreter, Los Angeles, CA. www.petate.com

ALSO, UNIFIED EFFORT FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM. Today, hundreds of groups in cities across the nation come together to launch a week-long public campaign urging for comprehensive immigration reform. These activities take place on the eve of a meeting on the issue between President Obama and congressional leaders.

Guest: Francisco Lopez, director, CAUSA, Woodburn, OR.