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No Deportation! Hands Off Jiang Zhenxing! (Partisan Defense Committee We print below a March 11 letter by the Partisan Defense Committee—a class-struggle, non-sectarian defense organization associated with the Spartacist League—to the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement. We strongly protest the vile attempt on February 7 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to deport Jiang Zhenxing, a pregnant Chinese woman. As a result of the physical and verbal abuse by immigration agents, Ms. Jiang suffered a miscarriage of the twins she was carrying. We join with others who have condemned these despicable actions: Hands off Jiang Zhenxing! No deportations! Ms. Jiang has been in the U.S. for ten years and operates a small restaurant in Philadelphia with her husband. Their four- and six-year-old sons are American citizens, having been born in the U.S. On February 7, she reported for a regularly scheduled appointment with Immigration officials in Philadelphia. Within minutes of her arrival, Ms. Jiang was grabbed, hustled off and pushed into a minivan and driven to JFK airport in New York. Her husband and sons waited in the lobby unaware that she was being deported. En route Ms. Jiang told the agents she was pregnant and was experiencing pains. Her appeals for medical attention were not only denied but ridiculed. After they arrived at JFK airport her request for an ambulance was also refused. Hours later, she was finally taken to Jamaica Hospital, to be told by doctors the fetuses had no heartbeat. She underwent surgery the next day. On February 14, demonstrations were held in Philadelphia and New York to protest the mistreatment of Ms. Jiang. Reportedly, your office agreed to suspend deportation for six months, at which time you will again seek to forcibly separate her from her husband and children. We demand no deportation! Full citizenship rights for all immigrants!
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