Latina reproduction and the Latino Threat

In the article: Undocumented Women Forced To Give Birth White Shackled And In Police Custody it discusses the inhuman circumstances undocumented mother have to deal with while giving birth. It also discusses the large debate of the treatment these women endure while in the custody of authorities.

In chapter four of the Latino Threat, the issue becomes more in depth of the mistreatment and the negligence of undocumented women as mothers. Chavez stated that "'Latina reproduction' as an object of discourse produces a limited range of meanings, often focusing on ther supposedly excessive reproduction, seemingly abundant or limitless fertility and hypersexuality, all of which are seen as 'out of control' in relation to the supposed social norm," (Chavez in the Latino Threat pg. 72).
Chavez pretty much elaborates on this topic on how America believes for something out of the norm to be out of control. The same perceptions about black women are still used to this day when discussing the cycle of poverty in America, and that black women would often reproduce in excessive number in comparison to their white counterparts.

The two readings both describe the complexity and the unfairness of the treatment of undocumented immigrants. Whether and person is documented or not, the issue deals with human rights and the fact something as intimate as giving birth is now becoming acceptable to be abused by authorities is just sad. But it also goes in the bigger issue as well of the Latino Threat on America, whereas the belief that if their numbers rise; more jobs will be taken, the idea of whiteness dies out because of more people of color in this nation being born, and the fight for land. This nation does a good job at trying to divide and conquer and labeling something bad because it is not "White or "American" to be a threat to society, and for that belief it doe not give the right to make someone endure inhumane conditions for something as serious as the birth of a baby.