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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(115,938 posts)
Fri Nov 3, 2017, 07:21 PM Nov 2017

Immigration agents release 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy after ACLU lawsuit

Source: The Hill

Federal immigration authorities have released an undocumented 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy after detaining her following emergency surgery last week.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced Friday evening that the federal government released Rosa Maria Hernandez after the group filed a lawsuit seeking her release.

“Rosa Maria is finally free. We’re thrilled that she can go home to heal surrounded by her family's love and support,” Michael Tan, an attorney with the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, said in a statement. “Despite our relief, Border Patrol’s decision to target a young girl at a children’s hospital remains unconscionable. No child should go through this trauma and we are working to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

Hernandez was detained last week by Border Patrol agents after the ambulance she was riding in passed through a Border Patrol checkpoint, according to The New York Times.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/news/358732-immigration-agents-release-10-year-old-girl-with-cerebral-palsy-after-aclu

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Immigration agents release 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy after ACLU lawsuit (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2017 OP
So glad she's home. What the feds did was DESPICABLE..trolling hospitals for undocumented iluvtennis Nov 2017 #1
I hope somebody's ass ends up in jail for this rurallib Nov 2017 #2
You have to wonder what kind of cold,hearted Phoenix61 Nov 2017 #3
Well, you know the type SnowCritter Nov 2017 #4
Yes I know the type Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2017 #6
fucking assholes Kali Nov 2017 #5
Kick (nt) muriel_volestrangler Nov 2017 #7
Yeah for the ACLU Gothmog Nov 2017 #8
Kick FreeStateDemocrat Nov 2017 #9
Send in the next patient rocktivity Nov 2017 #10

iluvtennis

(20,913 posts)
1. So glad she's home. What the feds did was DESPICABLE..trolling hospitals for undocumented
Fri Nov 3, 2017, 07:27 PM
Nov 2017

ppl. Just plain evil.

SnowCritter

(848 posts)
4. Well, you know the type
Fri Nov 3, 2017, 08:01 PM
Nov 2017

"orders are orders".

It sounds better in the original German: Bestellungen sind Bestellungen

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