Suit seeks release of immigrant girl detained after surgery
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November 1, 2017
HOUSTON (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union sued the U.S. government Tuesday to demand that it release a 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy detained by Border Patrol agents after surgery because she is in the U.S. without legal permission.
The ACLU filed a lawsuit in federal court in San Antonio, where Rosa Maria Hernandez, whose parents brought her to the U.S. from Mexico a decade ago, is being held in a facility for unaccompanied minors who have entered the country illegally. The Border Patrol has said its agents took the child into custody last week after emergency gallbladder surge...
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