A critically ill woman from El Salvador who was awaiting emergency surgery for a brain tumor was forcibly moved from a Texas hospital to a detention center by federal agents, raising concerns about President Trump’s directive to more aggressively pursue people living in the country illegally. “It is heartbreaking and inhumane,’’ said Chris Hamilton, a Texas lawyer who tried to visit the woman Wednesday night at the detention center, where he was threatened with arrest for trespassing. Beltran-Hernandez was transferred from the detention center to the hospital in Fort Worth this month after complaining of headaches, nosebleeds and memory loss. Beltran-Hernandez is back at the Prairieland Detention Center, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “If immigration agents are in our schools, our healthcare system, our courts, lives will be lost,” he said.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 23, 2017 20:34 UTC