Report: Girl with cerebral palsy stopped by border patrol on way to surgery
Source: CBS News
A 10-year old girl with cerebral palsy was detained by immigration officials after passing through a Border Patrol checkpoint as she was set to undergo an emergency surgery in Texas on Tuesday, the New York Times reports.
According to the Times report, the family of Rosamaria Hernandez says the young girl was scheduled to receive gall bladder surgery at a hospital in Corpus Christi when border patrol agents had stopped the ambulance she was being transferred in. The agents allowed her to proceed to the hospital but followed the ambulance on the way and had waited outside her hospital room until she was released from surgery.
Immigration agents have since taken the little girl to a facility in San Antonio to live with other children who have arrived to the U.S. alone. Her parents however, who lack legal status in the country, live only 150 miles away.
The unusual circumstance highlights the administration's ramping up of detaining and enforcing the entry of younger immigrants into the country. Earlier last month, President Trump had announced the administration's decision to officially rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, effectively ending the 2012 program that has deferred deportations for those who came to the United States as young immigrants.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rosamaria-hernandez-10-year-old-immigrant-stopped-by-border-patrol-surgery/
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