U.S Border Patrol Agents need to draw their attention away
from a 10-year-old immigrant girl with cerebral palsy. Border Patrol
agents detained immigrant Rosa Maria after surgery because she was traveling
from Laredo to a children’s hospital in Corpus Christi on October 24th,
where she was scheduled to have an emergency surgery. After surgery, Border Patrol agents followed
Rosa Maria and the cousin to the hospital, then after the surgery she wasn’t
allowed to go back with her family in Laredo but was transported to a facility
in San Antonio under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The government shouldn’t have to detain
an individual from recovery after an emergency surgery. It is not a humane treatment
to keep a young child away from family in her conditions just because Customs
have to enforce ‘laws’. Border Patrol agents had the option to follow and
detail this sick child; it was unnecessary to treat her as an extreme threat.
The sick child had no intentions to run away from agents, instead they followed
her from the start to end of her surgery. No one can’t begin to imagine the
worry that the parents where experiencing when she was detained. A child after
surgery should be supported with relatives not with people who think you’re a
threat. She should’ve been freely released to her own family, and then the
government could take further actions to justify her citizenship.
A child should not alarm the U.S.
governments security system, attention should be drawn on the immigrants who
brings drugs, and weapons. The government is spending time and money on issues
that are not as distressing as other situations.
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