Not knowing English apparently disqualifies a woman from being a good mother, according to some health officials in Mississippi. Cirila Baltazar Cruz is a 34-year-old illegal immigrant and restaurant worker from Mexico who speaks neither English nor Spanish…only Chatino, a language spoken by less than 23,000 people in the southern part of the Mexican state of Oaxaca, After flagging down a police car, she gave birth to a baby girl, Rubi, at Singing River Hospital in Pascagoula, and then, two days later, had the child taken from her by the Mississippi Department of Human Services. Officials ruled that Baltazar was unfit to care for Rubi in part because her lack of English “placed her unborn child in danger and will place the baby in danger in the future.”