Sign the petition re: 10-year-old imprisoned following life-saving surgery

Rosa Maria Hernandez is now in a child detention center, 150 miles away from her parents.

Dear MoveOn member,

This is what our country has come to: We're imprisoning little children immediately following emergency surgery. Ten-year-old Rosa Maria Hernandez is now in a detention center, 150 miles away from her parents, after Border Patrol was alerted while she was on her way to a life-saving gallbladder surgery.¹

Will you sign and share my petition demanding that the Department of Homeland Security and the Trump administration release 10-year-old medical patient Rosa Maria? Click here to sign.

Release 10-year-old medical patient Rosa Maria immediately and stop allowing the Department of Homeland Security to target immigrants and their children in hospitals, ambulances, and other sensitive locations.

Rosa Maria is undocumented, having been brought to the U.S. when she was just three months old.²

According to The New York Times, Border Patrol agents allowed Rosa Maria's ambulence to continue to Driscoll Children's Hospital but followed it the rest of the way there, then waited outside her room until she was released from the hospital. Rosa Maria is now in a children's detention center for immigrants, over 150 miles away from her parents, who are both undocumented in Laredo.³

Sign and share this petition now to tell Donald Trump's deportation force to let Rosa Maria go!

Even for the Trump administration, this is a new low. The Border Patrol violated many of its own guidelines around avoiding sensitive places like hospitals and keeping children and families together whenever possible.

If enough of us raise our voices, Trump will have no choice but to let Rosa Maria go, and we might even be able to make changes to make sure this sort of violation never happens again.

Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thanks!

–Kyle de Beausset

Sources:

1. "Undocumented 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy detained by US Border Patrol after undergoing emergency surgery," Independent, October 26, 2017
https://act.moveon.org/go/19921?t=18&akid=192277%2E10220574%2E1qY-Fu

2. "10-Year-Old Immigrant Is Detained After Agents Stop Her on Way to Surgery," The New York Times, October 25, 2017
https://act.moveon.org/go/19922?t=20&akid=192277%2E10220574%2E1qY-Fu

3. Ibid.

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