Hernandez Family: u.s.-Mexico Border

hernandez family: Leticia Gonzalez, an attorney for the Hernandez family, said Thursday that Rosa Maria was taken with a cousin from the Texas border city of Laredo to a children's hospital in Corpus Christi, about 150 miles 240 kilometres away, according to Metro News. They had to pass through one of several Border Patrol checkpoints set up in South Texas, north of the U.S.-Mexico border. Immigration advocates are protesting Rosa Maria Hernandez's case and say Border Patrol should show more discretion in the cases of sick children who are in the U.S. illegally but need medical treatment. Advocates say the interior checkpoints, many of them miles north of the Rio Grande, restrict the movement of people without legal status out of the region. At the hospital, agents stood by and refused to let Rosa Maria's relative close the door to their room so they could keep watch over the girl, Gonzalez said. Gonzalez said Border Patrol agents allowed the girl and her cousin to pass, but followed the hospital vehicle taking them. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.