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U.S. government releases detained Mexican girl with cerebral palsy

By Jonathan Allen

 

(Reuters) - The U.S. government released from custody a 10-year-old Mexican girl with cerebral palsy on Friday, the American Civil Liberties Union said, 10 days after the ambulance taking her to surgery in Texas was stopped at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint.

 

Rosa Maria Hernandez has lived in the United States illegally since her family brought over the border to Texas when she was 3 months old. Her detention was criticized by civil rights groups and some Democratic politicians who oppose the crackdown by Republican President Donald Trump on illegal immigration.

 

The circumstances of Hernandez's release into her family's care were not immediately clear.

 

It came three days after the ACLU sued the U.S. government, saying the government arrested the child without a necessary warrant and was violating her rights, in part by denying her doctor's orders for follow-up appointments in the days after the surgery.

 

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which took over custody of Hernandez after she was detained by immigration officials, said in a statement it could not comment on individual cases, but that it treats each child "with the utmost care."

 

Hernandez needed gallbladder surgery last Tuesday, and was taken in an ambulance with her cousin, a U.S. citizen, from Laredo, on the border with Mexico where the girl lives with her family, to a hospital in Corpus Christi, about 130 miles (210 km) away.

 

Her ambulance had to pass through one of the dozens of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol checkpoints set up on highways close to the Mexico border.

 

The border agents allowed Hernandez to proceed to the hospital and waited outside her room while she began her recovery before taking her into custody and driving her to a federal shelter in San Antonio, Texas, according to Leticia Gonzalez, a lawyer for the girl's family, who filmed the encounter.

 

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health declined to say if Hernandez or her family would have to meet with immigration officials again or have their case brought to court.

 

Michael Tan, an ACLU lawyer, said in a statement that Hernandez would "go home to heal" with her family.

 

"Despite our relief, Border Patrol's decision to target a young girl at a children's hospital remains unconscionable," he said.

 

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-11-04

[boomerangutang]

Every day Trump backs into bramble bushes of his own making. 

[IAMHERE]

"Despite our relief, Border Patrol's decision to target a young girl at a children's hospital remains unconscionable," he said.

Geez, where would they look? That is where she was.

[zydeco]

So, just make it across the border and you can get an escort to the hospital and have American taxpayers pay your medical bills. Great message for the rest of the world. Just come on in and grab your freebies. Meanwhile, American citizens pay through the nose for medical insurance premiums and deductibles. 

[zydeco]

6 hours ago, boomerangutang said:

Every day Trump backs into bramble bushes of his own making. 

The girl was a mexican citizen. They have hospitals in mexico, too. Some Americans go to Mexico, in fact, to get cheaper care, there.  Why didn't this girl and her family get treated in their own country on their own dime?

 

https://www.health-tourism.com/medical-tourism-mexico/nuevo-laredo/

Edited November 4, 2017 by zydeco

[Thaidream]

The girl was already in the US- she arrived when she was 3 months old.  The US Border Patrol sets up checkpoints inland away from the border on major routes.

To me- it is unconscionable to stop and delay an ambulance while looking for illegal aliens and then compounding it by sending border patrol agents to the hospital where a person was being treated.

Is this what America has become under Trump- a place where people of color from other countries are harassed and followed- the girl was 10 years old and ill.  This is a disgusting abuse of power and needs to be resisted and stopped.

Where is the US Congress - it  is time for people in all walks of life to speak out about Donald Trump and his  unhealthy vision for America. Trump is destroying everything America stands for - next  Trump will take down the Statue of Liberty and give it back to France.

[dave_boo]

8 hours ago, Thaidream said:

The girl was already in the US- she arrived when she was 3 months old.  The US Border Patrol sets up checkpoints inland away from the border on major routes.

To me- it is unconscionable to stop and delay an ambulance while looking for illegal aliens and then compounding it by sending border patrol agents to the hospital where a person was being treated.

Is this what America has become under Trump- a place where people of color from other countries are harassed and followed- the girl was 10 years old and ill.  This is a disgusting abuse of power and needs to be resisted and stopped.

Where is the US Congress - it  is time for people in all walks of life to speak out about Donald Trump and his  unhealthy vision for America. Trump is destroying everything America stands for - next  Trump will take down the Statue of Liberty and give it back to France.

France already has some 14 copies...

[greatwhitenorth]

 

President trump is a man with no compassion or empathy. He suffers from narcissism and America will not be great again with him at the helm.  

[zydeco]

14 hours ago, Thaidream said:

The girl was already in the US- she arrived when she was 3 months old.  The US Border Patrol sets up checkpoints inland away from the border on major routes.

To me- it is unconscionable to stop and delay an ambulance while looking for illegal aliens and then compounding it by sending border patrol agents to the hospital where a person was being treated.

If the girl was already on the Laredo side of the border, why did she get in an ambulance and drive for 2 1/2 hours to Corpus Christi? There are hospitals in Laredo, Texas, too. In fact, if she was coming from anywhere "on the border," she was going the long route, across the state and to the Gulf and Corpus to get to a hospital. Something doesn't smell right, here. https://www.yelp.com/search?cflt=hospitals&find_loc=Laredo%2C+TX

[bert bloggs]

It seems that in America its the same as the UK if your a white person born and bred in the country a Christian  and paid your taxes all your life ,then you go to the back of the Q, only illegals and those of any other race or religion get to the front .