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A lot of people think those who want to
sic the immigration police on what they perceive as criminals (as
opposed to decent freedom loving people which is what they are)
consider themselves moral. This story from
the NYT on how the immigration authorities went after a 10 year
old girl who needed gall bladder surgery exposes that lie.
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.
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.
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| There she is, the terrible threat to the nation's border security 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. |
Meanwhile, all of the attendants at the Value Voters meetings and all the right wing ministers said . . . . nothing.
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