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.

Comments

[numbedtoe]

absolutely sickening.

[licktheabortion]

Whole thing made me cry several times.

[swissbeauty23]

<3

[bubblyshades]

same. i can't fathom this level of heartlessness and utter cruelty

[fauxkaren]

How the fuck have we gotten to this point?

How are there so many heartless people?

[licktheabortion]

I am trying to imagine how agents looked inside an ambulance, saw a sick little girl on her way to surgery, and decided to make her life even worse. It's the level of dehumanization that people who commit atrocities engage in. "Oh THEEESE people are illegal [never mind that being undocumented is only a civil not criminal offense]! THEEESE people are brown! They deserve the worse!"

[accioanime]

I bet their excuse would be, "just doing my job!" like that's exactly what ex Nazi officers said after the war

[swissbeauty23]

this nationalism shit is truly toxic

[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.

[sugarspice101]

Why the fuck would they think this is okay?!

[triviagogo29]

I have no words. This is fucking sick.