Tough situation though in general the 287G program is working.

As this program is implemented further, and states get serious about enforcing existing laws we will see a time - soon - in which we need to provide an improved visa to help solve the issue.

We are headed the right direction. I will say that Chaffetz idiot idea of either tents in the desert for 20 million (implying a round up of all illegal aliens) or his visas for 20 million (amnesty by any definition used since 2000) are not the answers.

We can fix this problem without the extreme pandering of people/idiots like Chaffetz.

all of us needed a lesson in how to treat each other humanely. Of course she was breaking the law by being in this country illegaly, but were the handcuffs while she went into labor and denying her contact with her newborn necessary? I think those measures were too excessive.

Of course she is going to pay the consquences for being illegal in this country, but treating her like a hard core criminal while in labor is inhumane and uncalled for...

""I felt like they were treating me like a criminal person," Villegas said"

Ms. Villegas, you entered the country illegally, were deported and re-entered illegally. Surprise! You are, by definition, a criminal.

This trespasser invades the United States, lives here since 1996, yet still can't speak English, and now US tax payers have to pay for the birth of her baby? No wonder our country is so indebt.

Both her and her husband should be sent back to their country and every thing they owned while illegally working and living in the USA, seized so the US can retrieve some of the costs these foreigners have cost US tax payers......

This woman came here illegally--had several children who, by a flawed Supreme Court decision, are now considered citizens. This enables her to collect all sorts of benefits, including free medical care--in jail or out. She has no driver's license (and therefore is uninsured) and she is driving poorly. And we shouldn't arrest her because she is pregnant?
I don't think so!

She took her chances, showed her disrespect for law, and had to pay the consequences. Now she's whining. I'm not terribly impressed.

As for having one leg or foot restrained--I remember having my first few babies in hospitals and not only having my feet fastened into cold metal stirrups, but having both hands restrained--and I wasn't even under arrest. She survived--so did the baby. And lots of babies get jaundice--in spite of being or not being nursed.

So let's put the sympathy aside for a few moments and look at the principle of obedience to law. If each individual can decide which, if any, laws they will obey, we will have anarchy in the land.

I had three children will in "cuffs" that is how most women gave birth a few years ago.

This woman is NOT an immigrant. She broke the law by coming into this country, she broke the law by coming back after she was deported, she broke the law by driving without a license OR a drivers test which would have made sure she could read road signs written in Englisn. She never passed a drivers test. She broke the law again.

I AM an immigrant, I waited in line, proved my character, became a citizen I speak english and I obey the laws of the U.S.A

I resent the politically correct cowards who call those who enter here illegally and break our laws as IMMIGRANTS!

Send her back and make her wait in line like any other person who seeks to respect the laws of this, MY country.

This has NOTHING to do with race.OR what color she is or is not OR what country she was born in.

It has to do with respect for the laws of these United States

"Treated like a criminal" YOU BET!! SHE is one!

Am looking for some towels to cry on!