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    The U.S. Nursed an Undocumented 10-Year-Old. Now It May Deport Her.

    The U.S. Nursed an Undocumented 10-Year-Old. Now It May Deport Her.

    By VIVIAN YEE
    OCT. 27, 2017

    Rosa Maria Hernandez, 10, who has cerebral palsy and was brought to the United States illegally as a baby, was detained this week after undergoing surgery in Texas.

    One of the newest arrivals this week at the Baptist Children’s Home Ministries facility for child migrants in San Antonio, Tex., is 10 years old.

    She has cerebral palsy. Her name is Rosa Maria Hernandez, and she does not understand why, days after undergoing emergency gallbladder surgery, she has not yet seen her mother, even though they are less than a three-hour drive apart.

    “Do I get to go home tomorrow?” she asked her mother on Wednesday evening, when they spoke over FaceTime.

    “I told her that she was only there because she was recovering, and once she was recovered, then she could come with me,” recalled her mother, Felipa de la Cruz, speaking in Spanish.

    “O.K., Mommy.”

    The truth is that Ms. de la Cruz does not know when her daughter will be released.

    They live in the border town of Laredo illegally, and when Ms. de la Cruz sent Rosa Maria to Corpus Christi for the surgery early Tuesday, the girl’s ambulance was stopped at a Border Patrol checkpoint. After agents learned the girl was an undocumented immigrant, they followed her to the hospital and guarded her room. When she was discharged, the agents took her to the shelter, which houses juveniles in immigration custody.

    “It’s the period when she needs me the most,” said Ms. de la Cruz, who cannot visit her daughter because she, too, could be arrested at a checkpoint. “I can’t help her. When I start to think about her, I start to get sad.”

    In a year when President Trump’s hard line on illegal immigration has driven the number of immigration arrests up by more than 40 percent, Rosa Maria’s case has sped straight to the heart of the immigration-debate maelstrom.

    Politicians have called for her release; activists have rallied, fund-raised and prayed on her behalf, questioning whether the Border Patrol violated its own policy against arresting immigrants at hospitals and why agents chose to expend so much time and manpower on a disabled 10-year-old girl.

    The Border Patrol said it had followed proper procedure in Rosa Maria’s case. And to supporters of tougher enforcement, Rosa Maria and her family — no matter how sympathetic their situation — are the embodiment of the argument that a weak border only encourages immigrants to come to the United States and take advantage of its schools, health care and other resources.

    “For crying out loud, we are not only paying to turn our country into the world’s orphanage, but we are also turning our nation into an emergency room for the rest of the world, where they drop off their kids or their elderly and we have to take care of them,” said George Rodriguez, a conservative activist in San Antonio. “It is not our fault, and we should not be on the hook for it.”

    Rosa Maria, the second of three daughters, came to the United States from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, when she was 3 months old.

    Her mother knew something was wrong when she held Rosa Maria for the first time: The baby was turning yellow. Doctors told her that the newborn would never walk, speak or feed herself. She survived her first day thanks only to a blood transfusion from a friend of a friend, a woman named Rosa Maria, for whom the baby was named.

    Her parents struggled to pay for her cerebral palsy treatments on Ms. de la Cruz’s partner’s earnings as a construction worker. Rosa Maria’s brain tests alone cost 300 pesos each, and she had them three times a day, at a time when the minimum professional wage was about 60 pesos a day.

    The city they could see just on the other side of the Rio Grande began to tempt them. They knew crossing was illegal, Ms. de la Cruz said, but their only thought was for their daughter.

    “In Mexico, we weren’t going to be able to pull her through,” she said. “But my partner said, ‘Maybe in the U.S., they’ll help us with her.’ ”

    Everything changed in Texas. A community center helped arrange for Rosa Maria to receive treatment through a government program for children with certain chronic, debilitating conditions that require specialized care. A month after they arrived, she had already begun receiving speech therapy, and would later receive occupational and physical therapy.

    She can now speak and move. Developmentally, however, she remains closer to a 4- or 5-year-old than a 10-year-old, the family’s lawyer, Leticia Gonzalez, said.

    “I don’t know how you can deny children the opportunity to thrive,” said Priscila Martinez, an immigration activist helping the family. “These families, all they’re looking for is a better opportunity for their children.”

    Though she crossed an international border to reach Laredo, Ms. de la Cruz has not left the Laredo area in the decade since, because of Border Patrol checkpoints to the north. Her partner, a day laborer, was arrested and detained by immigration agents five years ago, but was allowed to stay in the country under supervision, Ms. de la Cruz said.

    A few weeks ago, severe stomach pain sent Rosa Maria to the hospital, where doctors discovered kidney stones. The complications meant that she required emergency gallbladder surgery.

    With her parents unable to pass through the checkpoint, they asked Rosa Maria’s adult cousin, an American citizen, to ride with her to Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi.

    They never thought the Border Patrol would stop the ambulance.

    Doctors in the Rio Grande Valley send children in need of specialized care north to Driscoll every day, often accompanied by a relative with legal status instead of their undocumented parents, said Dr. Carmen Rocco, a Brownsville pediatrician who works with immigrant families.

    When Dr. Rocco first started practicing in the area three decades ago, she said, a doctor’s note was enough for Border Patrol agents to grant families temporary permission to travel to Corpus Christi for treatment. But in recent years, she said, doctors had come to expect no flexibility from the agency, forcing them to piece together teams of specialists from around the Valley to treat children south of the checkpoints. Since Mr. Trump took office, families have become even less likely to risk the journey. Rosa Maria’s case would probably discourage parents even more, Dr. Rocco said.

    In May, after a hospital in Harlingen, Tex., told the Border Patrol that a gravely ill 2-month-old patient, an American citizen, needed urgent care north of the checkpoint in Corpus Christi, agents showed up and offered to escort him and his undocumented parents through the checkpoint to the hospital — as long as they agreed to be placed in deportation proceedings when they arrived.

    No longer able to avoid the agents, the parents, Irma and Oscar Sanchez, said yes. As their son awaited the operation, they were taken one at a time to an immigration office for processing, and returned to the hospital, where agents kept them within sight at all times, said their lawyer, Lisa Koop. They are not in detention but are awaiting deportation hearings.

    A spokesman for Customs and Border Protection, the agency that includes the Border Patrol, said that while agency policy generally forbade making immigration arrests at hospitals, schools, churches and other so-called sensitive locations, agents had not violated the policy in either case.

    They had first stopped Rosa Maria at a checkpoint before following her to the hospital, the spokesman said, while the Sanchezes were taken into custody only because of the agreement among the medical team, the parents and the Border Patrol that the infant would be allowed through the checkpoint.

    When Rosa Maria’s ambulance was stopped, her cousin acknowledged to the Border Patrol that the girl was undocumented. The agents who followed the ambulance were legally obligated to do so because she was traveling without a parent or a legal guardian, raising concerns about human trafficking, the spokesman said.

    Rosa Maria will be released to her family after being processed and placed in deportation proceedings, which could take weeks, her lawyer said.

    Her next appointment across the checkpoint will be not in an operating room, but, instead, in immigration court.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/u...-detained.html
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    GET THEM ALL OUT. Deport the girl, deport the mother, deport her 2 sisters, deport the father "partner", get them all out of here. ASAP. I mean in days. Not months. Hold an emergency deportation hearing, are you citizens yes or no, do you have valid unexpired papers to be here yes or no, if no and no then out you go. All minor children go with the parents, no "legal guardian" child left behind crap. Now get them all out and charge that sister of the mother who claims she's a US citizen, with aiding and abetting.

    Everything changed in Texas. A community center helped arrange for Rosa Maria to receive treatment through a government program for children with certain chronic, debilitating conditions that require specialized care. A month after they arrived, she had already begun receiving speech therapy, and would later receive occupational and physical therapy.
    Cancel immediately any and all "government programs" that are using taxpayer dollars to fund this insanity. Tell Carlos Slim to set up a fund in Mexico to help these children with his money or tell the Mexican government, these are your citizens, you pay to take care of them.
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    “For crying out loud, we are not only paying to turn our country into the world’s orphanage, but we are also turning our nation into an emergency room for the rest of the world, where they drop off their kids or their elderly and we have to take care of them,” said George Rodriguez, a conservative activist in San Antonio. “It is not our fault, and we should not be on the hook for it.”

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    This needs to stop NOW. We cannot afford our own health insurance!

    Get her and her entire family out of here...no authorization to ever return!

    Let her country pay to take care of them.


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    DO NOT REWARD THEM - DEPORT THEM ALL

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    They hopped the border and everything is FREE! Woo Hoo, gravy train here we come.

    It doesn't mention anything about the parent's lives, I'd like to know how much they've acquired in material gains since being here. Do they have a car? Do they own a home? Exactly how much have THEY contributed to the care of their handicapped daughter? She's been here almost her entire life, how much have taxpayers had to pony up for her treatment?

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    The father "partner" has his own construction business, they're fat cats, he's running his own crew of illegals doing construction work stealing jobs from Americans. Bust them all, hunt them down, you know where they live, you know where they work, round 'em all up and get them ALL out of here tomorrow. Monday's a good day for a round up, and Wednesday's a great day for a DEPORTATION. Make it happen, GET R DONE. We want these people OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT of here, all of them, no child left behind, no partner daddy left behind, no aiders and abetters left behind, no "mommy" left behind, no illegal workers left behind, get them all out. ALL.
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    How many more are do we have . ship every one of them back home

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    Quote Originally Posted by southBronx View Post
    How many more are do we have . ship every one of them back home
    That is what I want to know too!

    How many more THOUSANDS of them are there that we do not know about.

    E-VERIFY OUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM AND BOOT THEM OUT!
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    In The Border Town Of Laredo Illegally!

    They live in the border town of Laredo illegally,
    We know they are there, ship 'em out! We can't touch them until they go through the Check Point? They are in the country illegally!

    As for the girl and her needs, let concerned groups fund her treatment in her country. Americans fund medical services in many countries with charity donations.

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    Ailing child facing immigration detention after surgery

    Ailing child facing immigration detention after surgery



    CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy who underwent gallbladder surgery this week was placed in deportation proceedings immediately after being medically released from a hospital Wednesday morning.

    Rosamaria Hernandez, who lacks legal immigration status, was transported to a children’s shelter in San Antonio that can attend to her medical needs while she awaits her case to be processed, California-based immigration attorney Alex Galvez said.

    Rosamaria was brought to Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi on Tuesday morning via ambulance from an immigration checkpoint near Laredo. The ambulance was escorted by Customs and Border Protection agents.

    Leticia Gonzalez, a San Antonio-based associate of Galvez, said Wednesday afternoon she asked that federal agents release Rosamaria to family members who are U.S. citizens, but to no avail.

    “Their orders are to process her,” Gonzalez said.

    Rosamaria came under threat of deportation after crossing a Customs and Border Protection checkpoint to get to Corpus Christi for the surgery.

    Rosamaria’s mother, Felipa Delacruz, who also lacks legal immigration status, said federal agents waited outside her daughter's hospital room as she recovered from surgery. Delacruz is in Laredo. Her niece Aurora Cantu, who is a U.S. citizen, accompanied Rosamaria past the checkpoint.

    Customs and Border Protection spokesman Rod Kise said in a statement Wednesday morning that Rosamaria and Cantu approached a Border Patrol checkpoint on Highway 59, east of Laredo.

    "Due to the juvenile’s medical condition, Border Patrol agents escorted her and her cousin to a Corpus Christi hospital where she could receive appropriate medical care,” Kise said.

    "Per the immigration laws of the United States, once medically cleared she will be processed accordingly. The Mexican Consulate has been advised of the situation by Laredo Sector Border Patrol."

    Galvez said the Department of Homeland Security will conduct a study to determine if Rosamaria can be released to family. The case was flagged by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement and will be expedited, Galvez said.

    Galvez said Rosamaria’s case is strong in that she is not a flight risk — because she is disabled — and does not pose a threat to society. But being apart from her mother for that two to three weeks will be a first for her.

    “The child has never been apart from her mom,” Galvez said.

    Democratic state Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa questioned the federal immigration officials’ priorities in the case.

    “The situation with Rosamaria Hernandez is not uncommon in South Texas or along the Texas-Mexico border. What is uncommon, is the Border Patrol or Immigration Customs Enforcement taking such an interest in a case involving a 10-year-old girl requiring immediate medical attention," Hinojosa said in an email to the Caller-Times.

    "While there is no doubt that we are a country of laws that must be followed, we are also a country with compassion. We have situations where certain discretions must be allowed to protect the rights of a human being."

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    Deport her now! They can use SKYPE to reject her case.

    We are not the care taker for the entire World.

    They have hospitals in Mexico...deport the whole family.

    Let her country have "compassion" for her as their human being citizen!
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