Title is a tad bit misleading, I highly doubt I'll be posting daily in this. Nonetheless, I decided to stop filling my other books with news articles and such so I've created this one. In this book I'll be sharing articles, stories, and sometimes pi...
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You see this 10 year old girl? If you haven't already heard her story, today I'm going to share it with you. And then we're going to play a brief game before my rant. Here we go:
Undocumented Girl With Cerebral Palsy in Federal Custody After Being Stopped on Way to Texas Hospital
POSTED 2:31 PM, OCTOBER 26, 2017, BY CNN WIRE
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.
Rosa Maria is now in a shelter run by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which falls under the Department of Health and Human Services, as is customary with undocumented, unaccompanied minors. The child remains without her parents, and it’s unclear when she’ll be released or what will happen to her, according to Gonzalez.
The family and their supporters characterized the apprehension as cruel and unnecessary, though immigration officials say the procedures were routine enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws.
A child with special needs
Rosa Maria came to the United States fromMexicowhen she was 3 months old. She was diagnosed with cerebral palsy and has the mental capacity of a child half her age, according to her mother, Felipa De La Cruz, who said her daughter doesn’t understand what’s happening.
“I told her she was only there because she was recovering and when she was recovered that she could come with me,” she said Thursday. “I start to think about her, and I want to start crying, and I become desperate.”
De La Cruz was able to video chat with her daughter in the children’s home, but she still doesn’t know whether Rosa Maria will ever return home to Laredo.
While she was recovering in the hospital, up to four federal agents were stationed outside her open hospital room door, Gonzalez said. The agents did not allow Rosa Maria’s cousin to close the door for privacy. After Gonzalez arrived and demanded privacy, citing attorney-client privilege, it was eventually allowed, she said.
