Girl gets surgery, but could be deported

HOUSTON — A 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy who entered the United States from Mexico without permission a decade ago could face deportation after she had to cross a Border Patrol checkpoint in southern Texas for emergency gallbladder surgery, a family lawyer said Thursday.

Immigration advocates are protesting Rosa Maria Hernandez’s case and say the Border Patrol should show more discretion in the cases of sick children who are in the U.S. illegally but need medical treatment.

Leticia Gonzalez, an attorney for the Hernandez family, said Thursday that Rosa Maria was taken with a cousin from the Texas border city of Laredo to a children’s hospital in Corpus Christi about 150 miles away. Gonzalez said Border Patrol agents allowed the girl and her cousin to pass but followed the hospital vehicle taking them. At the hospital, agents stood watch, and after her surgery, they took her to a federal facility in San Antonio for unaccompanied minors who are in the U.S. illegally.

If the girl is eventually released to a sponsor approved by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, she would undergo processing and could be deported. Gonzalez said it could be several weeks before she is released. during Hurricane Maria. The 2-year-old company had just two full-time employees when the storm hit last month.

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