Texas child being treated for cancer -- and who is a US citizen -- is deported to Mexico with undocumented parents

Thursday 13 March 2025 13:10 EDT

A Texas child and U.S. citizen being treated for brain cancer has been deported to Mexico along with her undocumented parents.

The parents of the 10-year-old girl are now desperate to return to the U.S. to continue her treatment, after immigration enforcement removed the child and four of her U.S.-born siblings from Texas on February 4, according to NBC News.

The family was traveling from their home in Rio Grande to Houston for an emergency medical check last month when they were stopped at an immigration checkpoint. They’d visited the specialists five other times without problems, lawyer Danny Woodward, who is representing the family with the Texas Civil Rights Project, told NBC.

Previously, the parents had shown letters from physicians and attorneys to get past the checkpoint. However, last month, the letters weren’t enough to get them through, and they were detained when the parents couldn’t show legal immigration documentation. The mother told NBC that she attempted to explain her daughter’s situation to the officers, but “they weren’t interested in hearing that.”

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https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/texas-mexico-child-cancer-deportation-b2714565.html