MALDEF Issues Statement on Detention of 10-Year-Old by Border Patrol Agents
October 30, 2017
October 30, 2017
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 30 -- The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund issued the following statement by President and General Counsel Thomas A. Saenz in response to the detention of Rosa Maria Hernandez, a 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy who underwent emergency gallbladder surgery in Texas. Rosa, a Mexican national, was detained by Border Patrol agents at the hospital where she was recovering and transferred to a San Antonio immigration detention facility for minors. She remains in . . .