Posted on 03/13/2025 5:39:01 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A family that was deported to Mexico hopes they can find a way to return to the U.S. and ensure their 10-year-old daughter, who is a U.S. citizen, can continue her brain cancer treatment.
Immigration authorities removed the girl and four of her American siblings from Texas on Feb. 4, when they deported their undocumented parents.
The family’s ordeal began last month, when they were rushing from Rio Grande, where they lived, to Houston, where their daughter’s specialist doctors are based, for an emergency medical checkup.
The parents had done the trip at least five other times in the past, passing through an immigration checkpoint every time without any issues, according to attorney Danny Woodward from the Texas Civil Rights Project, a legal advocacy and litigation organization representing the family. In previous occasions, the parents showed letters from their doctors and lawyers to the officers at the checkpoint to get through.
But in early February, the letters weren’t enough. When they stopped at the checkpoint, they were arrested after the parents were unable to show legal immigration documentation. The mother, who spoke exclusively to NBC News, said she tried explaining her daughter’s circumstances to the officers, but “they weren’t interested in hearing that.”
Other than lacking “valid immigration status in the U.S.,” the parents have “no criminal history,” Woodward said.
“What is happening to this family is an absolute tragedy and it is something that is not isolated to just them,” said Rochelle Garza, president of the Texas Civil Rights Project.
“This is part of a pattern in practice that we’ve seen in the Trump administration,” Garza said, adding that she has heard of multiple other cases concerning mixed-status families. But for now, this is the only case of this nature the organization has taken on.
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Baby milk factory again
According to the intent of Amendment 14, if she wasn’t born a slave, she’s not a citizen.
Don’t they have doctors in Mexico?
Media is working hard looking for their “elian gonzolez” hit pieces
This is great news for the kid, because Mexico has free healthcare from the state...and will undoubtedly have a better outcome then staying in the oppressive US.
They can take her to Cuba. Michael Moore said their healthcare system is better than the US. I do sympathize for the child. Anytime a child is sick it tugs at my heartstrings.
Calling BS
She’s recovering. A lot of people who go to Mexico to recover from health issues. Why is it Americans go to Mexico to seek treatment because it’s “cheaper” and Mexicans come to America?
My mother told me, “you can’t save every kitten.”. What I learned in dealing with street people, drug addicts and alcoholics is every one of them has a heartrending story. Some of them are probably true.
And just like that, leftists cared about children with brain cancer
They have doctors and cancer clinics in Mexico, and at lower cost, too.
“Don’t they have doctors in Mexico?”
Of course they do and if they’re allowed to use Fen-Ben, they likely have a far higher success rate in treating cancer than the US.
Somehow my sympathy wells are drained dry. Automatic citizenship of babies born to illegal aliens is wrong. It leads to a legal morass. POTUS Trump has this issue in his sights.
Sob story time at NBC
Who says she’s a citizen?
Her foreign parents, trespassing in this country?
How is it that they decide who our citizenry will be?
If we don’t get rid of the rank and file illegals like this, there’s no point in any deportations. I don’t care how useful they are or how seemingly normal a life they lead. Every single one of them is getting benefits off the backs of taxpayers.
Funny . . . NBC was unconcerned with the Dems stone faced response to the young boy Trump made an honorary Secret Service agent after his fight with brain cancer. Go figure.
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