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These people are really just pure evil... October 27, 2017 3:48 pm RL

10-Year-Old Mexican Girl With Cerebral Palsy Detained by Border Patrol After Surgery in Texas

A 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy who entered the United States from Mexico without permission a decade ago is potentially facing deportation after having to go through a Border Patrol checkpoint in South Texas for emergency gallbladder surgery, a family lawyer said Thursday.

Immigration advocates are protesting Rosa Maria Hernandez’s case and say Border Patrol should show more discretion in the cases of sick children who are in the U.S. illegally but need medical treatment.

Leticia Gonzalez, an attorney for the Hernandez family, said Thursday that Rosa Maria was taken with a cousin from the Texas border city of Laredo to a children’s hospital in Corpus Christi, about 150 miles away. They had to pass through one of several Border Patrol checkpoints set up in South Texas, north of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Gonzalez said Border Patrol agents allowed the girl and her cousin to pass, but followed the hospital vehicle taking them. At the hospital, agents stood by and refused to let Rosa Maria’s relative close the door to their room so they could keep watch over the girl, Gonzalez said.

And after the surgery was complete, agents stood ready to escort Rosa Maria to a federal facility for unaccompanied minors in the U.S. illegally, located another 140 miles away in San Antonio.

Rosa Maria is now being held at the facility indefinitely, the attorney said.

Even if she is eventually released to a sponsor approved by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the girl will undergo processing and could be deported. Gonzalez said it could be several weeks before she is released.

“They just refused to allow the child to go home,” Gonzalez said Thursday.

  • Look at it from their point of view. by hank 2017-10-27 19:50:58
    • Who is "they"? n/t by RobVG 2017-10-28 09:53:38
      • "They" are the fearful. by hank 2017-10-28 12:16:43
        • They? They who voted for Trump. They who still mindlessly support him. by Robert 2017-10-28 11:06:43
          • 60 million haters? Really? by RobVG 2017-10-28 11:18:11
            • After almost a year, you can't answer whether you support the "president" you elected? Really? by Robert 2017-10-28 11:45:52
              • They are cowards at heart.... by RL 2017-10-28 11:49:38
          • "In the absence of PROPER government... by hank 2017-10-28 10:42:41
            • The people that so easily conned you into voting for them.... by RL 2017-10-28 10:22:56
              • Well, by RobVG 2017-10-28 10:56:34
                • It's not about the money by Robert 2017-10-28 12:15:44
                  • I am sure if RobVG were in her parent's situation, he would have the decency to let his kid die... by RL 2017-10-28 12:46:34
                    • Its funny how every child's life is sacred and must be protected- until they are born... by RL 2017-10-28 12:53:03
                  • If you read the article you would see she has lived here nearly her entire life... by RL 2017-10-28 11:40:32

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