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turbinetree

(25,365 posts)
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 10:36 AM Nov 2017

Detained 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy released from custody in Texas

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Source: The Guardian

The undocumented 10-year-old detained by the US border patrol on the way to a Texas hospital has been released from custody to rejoin her family.

Rosa Maria Hernandez left a shelter for unaccompanied minors in San Antonio on Friday, nine days after she was taken there. After she had passed through an interior checkpoint, officers had followed her to a children’s hospital in Corpus Christi, waited outside her room and arrested her once she had recovered from a gall bladder operation.

Soon after the Democratic US representative for San Antonio, Joaquin Castro, tweeted that the Department of Health and Human Services and the contractor that runs the shelter, BCFS, “are refusing to let me meet with Rosa Maria”, she was released pending a decision on whether the deportation process against her would continue.

“While this is welcome news, Rosa Maria’s future remains uncertain,” Castro said in a statement. “The Trump administration has not made clear whether they will proceed with deportation proceedings against her … The United States should not be a place where children seeking life-sustaining medical care are at risk of apprehension.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/03/10-year-old-girl-deportation-texas-border-patrol-released



The perception to the "world" at large, makes this country a laughing stock.

This young woman lives in a wheel chair 16 hours a day, has anyone every thought of putting themselves in that situation and living in a wheel chair----------

This is what is called a "malignant normality of a police state"

The logic of this "act" and just amazing, and then the "design"

There is treason being committed in this country, and this country has wing nuts in Congress, worrying about invasions across the border with with drugs being strapped on the bodies like cantaloupes.....................




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Detained 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy released from custody in Texas (Original Post) turbinetree Nov 2017 OP
Duplicate of LBN thread on Home page. You can do better. Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2017 #1
This is an issue that all Americans must get behind. DK504 Nov 2017 #2
Locking - duplicate thread muriel_volestrangler Nov 2017 #3

Bernardo de La Paz

(51,080 posts)
1. Duplicate of LBN thread on Home page. You can do better.
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 10:46 AM
Nov 2017

DK504

(3,847 posts)
2. This is an issue that all Americans must get behind.
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 10:47 AM
Nov 2017

Did the child have a lawyer when she was detained from medical attention. If these sadists refuse to allow her to see a lawyer? They are walking down a path that will get dark fast. Not letting a child receive medical attention? I smell a huge law suit coming down the line.

muriel_volestrangler

(102,615 posts)
3. Locking - duplicate thread
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 10:56 AM
Nov 2017

of https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141905322 . Please continue discussion there. Thanks.

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