Democracia USA strongly condemns the treatment of Adriana Torres-Flores, a Latina immigrant mother who was recently abandoned in an Arkansas jail for four days without supervision, food or water. Ms. Torres-Flores, 38, slept on the floor with only a shoe for a pillow, and with nothing to drink except her own urine, as reported by The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. There was no bathroom in the cell and a bailiff had apparently forgotten that he placed Ms. Torres-Flores in it last Thursday, and simply left her in the empty courthouse, in Fayetteville, over the weekend.
We call on local, state and federal officials along with all citizens to change the tone of the debate on immigration, before this country slides further into an abyss of racial profiling and physical attacks against undocumented – and unprotected -- immigrants.”
