US EditionGirl deported with parents to Mexico while trying to reach Houston for brain cancer treatment
- A Texas family, including their 10-year-old daughter, a U.S. citizen with brain cancer, was deported on February 4 while seeking treatment in Houston.
- The family's attorney, Danny Woodward, stated that the parents have no criminal history except for lacking valid immigration status.
- Rochelle Garza, president of the Texas Civil Rights Project, described the situation as a tragedy and part of a troubling pattern during the Trump administration.
- Immigration authorities detained the family due to the parents' lack of legal immigration documentation while traveling for medical care.
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Parents deported to Mexico while seeking brain cancer treatment for young American daughter
The undocumented parents of a 10-year-old US citizen whose family was removed to Mexico say they are desperately seeking a way for either of them to return to the US with the girl so she can continue brain cancer treatment.
Washington. A Texas girl and U.S. citizen under treatment for brain cancer was deported this week to Mexico along with her undocumented parents, NBC News reported.
It was a trip they had made up to five times in the past year, since the diagnosis of a cancerous tumor in the brain of the 10-year-old daughter. But this time the final destination was not a medical clinic in a Houston hospital. The family — two undocumented parents and five children, four of them born in the United States and, therefore, American citizens — ended up on the southern side of a border bridge that crosses the Bravo River in Texas,…
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