Amy Goodman
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Doctors Call for Release of Girl With Cerebral Palsy After Border Agents Remove Her From Hospital
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October 31, 2017
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16:14Now PlayingThe American Civil Liberties Union is demanding the immediate release of a 10yearold girl who was removed from the children’s hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas, and taken into custody by Border Patrol agents as she recovered from emergency surgery. The girl, Rosa Maria Hernandez, is undocumented and has cerebral palsy. She has been living in the United States since she was three months old, when her parents moved to the country in order to access better medical care for her. She was first detained last Tuesday, after an ambulance carrying her to the hospital was stopped at a checkpoint. Agents then waited outside her hospital room until she was discharged, and detained her. Video shows the agents escorting Hernandez into custody as she’s wheeled out of the hospital on a gurney. Her doctors are recommending she be released into the care of her family. We’re joined by Priscila Martinez, who is the Texas Immigration Coalition coordinator and among those calling for immigration authorities to release the girl back to her family.
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