A 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy has been detained by federal immigration authorities in Texas after she passed through a Border Patrol checkpoint on her way to a hospital to undergo emergency gall bladder surgery. Immigration agents have, however, detained some teenagers who are suspected of membership in gangs like MS-13, a gang rooted in Los Angeles and El Salvador that President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions have repeatedly condemned. The entire time Rosamaria was in surgery and then in recovery, several armed Border Patrol agents stood outside her hospital room, the family said. All I wanted was for her to get the surgery that she needed,” de la Cruz said. Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar who represents the Laredo area in Congress, called Wednesday for the girl to be released back to her family.

Source: thestar October 26, 2017 17:37 UTC