"To be in an ambulance or a hospital, handcuffed, with a bag of saline solution and a guard, and to be experiencing the pains of childbirth – what woman in her right mind would try to escape?" asked Figueroa, a former inmate who gave birth while incarcerated.

VIDEO :: Legislation is being considered in New York that would allow mothers-to-be who are behind bars to have the right not to be handcuffed and shackled while they give birth. (Aug. 25) more>

More than 36,000 Dominicans have been deported since 1996, when then President Clinton signed into law the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act.

Professor David Brotherton, of the Sociology at John Jay College in New York City, talks about his research on deportation back to the Dominican Republic. more>

The agreement came into being after an investigation conducted by advocacy organizations, such as Make the Road New York, of lawsuits brought on as a result of the businesses practices of pharmacies in the state.

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A new report accuses Mexico of criminalizing and inhumanely treating its immigrants under a 32-year-old anti-immigrant law that is harsher than what is being proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives. more>