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Protests Over Treatment of Chinese Immigrant

By immigrationprof

From the Valentine’s Day edition of the New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/14/nyregion/14deport.html?pagewanted=all

The treatment of a pregnant Chinese woman who miscarried twins last week after federal immigration officers in Philadelphia forcibly tried to deport her from New York has become a flash point for planned protest in the Chinese-American communities of both cities, lawyers and immigrant advocates said yesterday.

Richard Bortnick, a lawyer with the Philadelphia law firm of Cozen O’Connor, which is handling the woman’s case without fee, said that protest rallies would be held today. He said he had appealed to senators in Pennsylvania and New York to help investigate the treatment of the woman, Zhenxing Jiang, 32, who has said that the officers manhandled her and ridiculed her pleas for medical help until it was too late.

KJ