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Texas: Agents Detained 10-Year-Old Undocumented Girl with Cerebral Palsy at Hospital

HeadlineOct 27, 2017

In Texas, a mother is demanding immigration authorities release her daughter—a 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy who was detained by Border Patrol agents after undergoing surgery on Tuesday. The girl, Rosa Maria Hernandez, has been living in the United States since she was three months old, when her parents moved the family to the U.S. in order to access better medical care for Rosa. On Tuesday, she and her cousin were traveling from Laredo, Texas, to a hospital in Corpus Christi, when they were stopped at a border checkpoint. Border Patrol agents then traveled with Rosa to the hospital and then detained her—at the hospital—once the surgery was over. She is currently being held in a children’s shelter in San Antonio, Texas.

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