Immigration agents detained 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy

Immigration agents detained 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy

In Texas, Federal immigration authorities have detained 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy after she had surgery.

On Tuesday, October 24, about 2 o’clock in the morning Rosamaria Hernandez was transported by ambulance from the medical center Laredo to the hospital in Corpus Christi. 10-year-old girl was detained by authorities at the time as her family passed through the checkpoint of the border patrol.

Officers went to the ambulance to children’s hospital Driscoll, where the girl underwent surgery gallbladder. Then they waited outside the chamber until Rosamaria let go.

On Wednesday evening, according to family members and lawyers involved in the case of the child, immigration agents took the girl to a facility in San Antonio, where the children are migrants, who themselves arrived in the United States from Central America.

Obscene heartlessness: US federal agents stop 10-yr-old girl with cerebral palsy on way to surgery, then detain her https://t.co/Jo18kkuHIo pic.twitter.com/3DCGznLw1e

— Andrew Stroehlein (@astroehlein) November 26, 2017

According to a cousin of Hernandez, a US citizen who accompanied her to the hospital, the agents tried to convince the family that the girl was taken to the medical centre of Mexico, but the family refused to do so.

«I am a mother. All I wanted was to have her surgery, she needed,» – said to journalists The New York Times the girl’s mother Felipa de La Cruz.

«It never occurred to me that something of what is happening right now can happen,» she said.

As it became known, Rosamaria Hernandez came to the U.S. from Mexico when she was only 3 months. The family was hoping for a more effective treatment of cerebral palsy Rosemarie in the United States. 10 years the girl lived in Laredo with their parents who are illegal immigrants.

A member of the house of representatives Henry Cuellar believes that, despite the duty of immigration to protect the American people, staff departments to better focus on more important threats.

It became known that the immigration agents had previously arrested several teenagers who probably are members of dangerous gangs like MS-13, rooted in Los Angeles and El Salvador.

People supporting Rosamaria Hernandez are protesting outside the Driscoll Children’s Hospital. They don’t want the 10-y-o to get deported pic.twitter.com/IeXz0sEMTk

— Albert Jimenez (@KRIS_Stephania) October 25, 2017

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