The Undocumented 10-Year-Old Detained After Surgery Is Being Treated Like Her Family Doesn't Exist
The arrest of 10-year-old Rosa Maria Hernandez at a Corpus Christi hospital has become one of the most glaring examples of the Trump administration’s ongoing war on undocumented immigrants to date. Hernandez—who was brought to the United States from Mexico by her parents as an infant in the hopes of obtaining better treatment for her diagnosed cerebral palsy—was arrested by Customs and Border Protection officials who waited patiently to nab the young girl immediately after she underwent emergency gallbladder surgery.
But if the cruelty of detaining a ten-year-old with a congenital disorder as she recovers from an operation isn’t appalling enough, a new report claims Hernandez is now being treated as if her family doesn’t exist.
According to the New York Times, Hernandez has been placed in a San Antonio-area detention facility typically used to house unaccompanied minors who cross into the United States without documentation. Hernandez, however, has been living with her parents—both undocumented—in Laredo, TX, just 150 miles away.