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Agents of the U.S. Border Patrol have taken a frail 10-year-old girl, who suffers from cerebral palsy, into custody shortly after she underwent emergency surgery on her gallbladder, and now her family is locked in a major legal battle, as attorneys fight for the child’s return.
The event unfolded when 10-year-old Rosa Maria Hernandez was rushed to a Texas hospital for emergency surgery last Wednesday, according to the New York Times. When the ambulance carrying the child passed through a Border Patrol checkpoint, agents reportedly followed it to the hospital where they waited until doctors completed the procedure. A short time after Rosa Maria was taken into the recovery room, immigration agents took her into custody and transported the child to a detention center for unaccompanied minors, located in San Antonio, Texas, more than 150 miles from her family.