Celebs react to disabled 10-year-old girl detained for deportation while on her way to surgery

[licktheabortion]

Background: Rosamaria Hernandez is a 10-year-old girl in Texas with cerebral palsy. She also has kidney stones. On her way to gallbladder surgery, a border patrol checkpoint (note: border patrol has jurisdiction 100 miles of the border) stopped her ambulance. The agents found out that she was brought here without papers when she was 3 months old.

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[problematic]

Thank you for action plan we can take! This is HORRIFYING

[licktheabortion]

I've been involved in a lot of immigration activism. I've seen and heard a lot of shit. A few months back I protested a man who was wrongly detained by ICE, then they refused to give him his meds while he was in custody, and he died. This was upstate. Where I live, ICE deported 4 Christian Chinese refugees from Indonesia (which is gripped in a bout of racism/nationalist/fundamentalist wave possibly worse than ever before). A church near me took in 2 other Indonesian refugees that ICE is trying to deport.

It's all horrifying and infuriating and saddening. But something about this case in Texas wrecks me the worst. I hope she can be a tipping point. I hope and I'm doing my little bit to make it so that she and everyone like her in similar situations can be saved.

[helyanwe89]

I had to re-read this. I read it as Indonesia deported 4 Chinese people.

[yussamahal]

LoL, my bad,I misread.

[licktheabortion]

lol my bad with the syntax!

But yeah, they fled from Indonesia to the US in the 90s. In the 2nd year they were here, the law got changed so that asylum applicants had to file in the first year of landing in the US, when people had 2 years to do it before. Those refugees didn't know about the law change. And when they found out, it was too late. From then on, there wasn't a legal way for them to apply for asylum in the US. They had cooperated with ICE over the years as much as they can, which is why ICE had all their info so they were easy pickings. :(