Thursday, October 26, 2017
USA: Border Patrol Detained A 10-Year-Old Undocumented Girl With Cerebral Palsy After Her Surgery
Border Patrol agents stood outside the girl’s hospital room the entire time she was there, Delacruz said. Rosamaria has lived in Laredo, on the border with Mexico, since she was three months old.
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Source/Credit: BuzzFeed
By Adolfo Flores | October 25, 2017
A 10-year-old undocumented girl with cerebral palsy was placed in deportation proceedings and sent to a Texas detention center following a surgery on Wednesday.
Rosamaria Hernandez was being transported from Laredo, Texas, to Corpus Christi early Tuesday via ambulance for gallbladder surgery when she passed through an immigration checkpoint, said her mother, Felipa Delacruz.
US Customs and Border Protection agents allowed Rosamaria to go through the checkpoint with her cousin, a US citizen who was accompanying her, but followed the ambulance to Driscoll Children’s Hospital.
Border Patrol agents stood outside the girl’s hospital room the entire time she was there, Delacruz said. Rosamaria has lived in Laredo, on the border with Mexico, since she was three months old.
“It never crossed my mind that they would detain her. I thought the letter we had from a social worker would be enough,” Delacruz told BuzzFeed News. “I feel so hopeless.”
The checkpoint she crossed is located miles from the border. BuzzFeed News has previously reported that Border Patrol checkpoints make undocumented immigrants feel trapped because they can’t cross them without risking being stopped, arrested, and deported. Some immigrants avoid crucial medical care because of the checkpoints.
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