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Last edited Sat Oct 28, 2017, 09:14 AM - Edit history (1)
Undocumented special-needs girl in federal custody after emergency surgery(CNN)An undocumented 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy was taken into US Customs and Border Protection custody shortly after emergency gallbladder surgery in Texas in a case that advocates say shows the harmful extent of the President's hard line on immigration policies.
On Tuesday, Rosa Maria Hernandez and her adult cousin, a US citizen, had to go through an interior Border Patrol checkpoint while in an ambulance to get from Laredo, Texas, to a Corpus Christi hospital for emergency gallbladder surgery, family attorney Leticia Gonzalez said Thursday.
Customs and Border Protection runs checkpoints along major thoroughfares leading away from the border in the Southwest, where travelers and vehicles are checked for legal authorization to enter the United States.
Border patrol agents determined that Rosa Maria was undocumented and followed the pair to the hospital, where the girl underwent surgery. The agents remained at the hospital until she was discharged into their custody, according to Gonzalez. In a statement, the agency said agents "escorted" the pair to the hospital.
On Tuesday, Rosa Maria Hernandez and her adult cousin, a US citizen, had to go through an interior Border Patrol checkpoint while in an ambulance to get from Laredo, Texas, to a Corpus Christi hospital for emergency gallbladder surgery, family attorney Leticia Gonzalez said Thursday.
Customs and Border Protection runs checkpoints along major thoroughfares leading away from the border in the Southwest, where travelers and vehicles are checked for legal authorization to enter the United States.
Border patrol agents determined that Rosa Maria was undocumented and followed the pair to the hospital, where the girl underwent surgery. The agents remained at the hospital until she was discharged into their custody, according to Gonzalez. In a statement, the agency said agents "escorted" the pair to the hospital.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/26/health/undocumented-child-federal-custody-surgery-trnd/index.html
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America has lost it's heart and soul (Original Post)
spanone
Oct 2017
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bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)1. When I read this a couple of days ago, I was literally shocked.
To think of a sick child being separated from her mom after surgery is so upsetting. It is the personal and intimate evil of this that so clearly exposes the soulless void at the center of
Trumpism.
This is Kellys real legacy as well.
Kick and Recommend for visibility.
spanone
(135,919 posts)2. the world according to trump....
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)3. this is what fear looks like
Fear of the"other" robs us of all reason, empathy and sympathy. How can we highlight to all these white people that they support Trump because they are just scaredy cats?
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)4. Sure has and it is a disgrace.