Deported on her way to the hospital: 10-year-old American girl recovering from brain cancer sent to Mexico
The minor, a U.S. citizen by birth, was detained a month ago along with her undocumented parents and four siblings while en route to a medical appointment in Houston. When faced with the option of separation, the family chose to stay together
It was a journey the family had made up to five times in the past year, ever since their 10-year-old daughter was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor. But this time, the final destination wasn’t a doctor’s office in a Houston hospital. Instead, the family — two undocumented parents and five children, four of whom were born in the United States and are U.S. citizens — found themselves on the south side of a border bridge that crosses the Rio Grande in Texas, expelled from the country with only the belongings they had on them.
