American Citizen: Corpus Christi and Liberties Union

american citizen: Joaquin Castro said that Rosa Maria Hernandez was returned to her family Friday, according to Metro News. Her parents brought her into the U.S. from Mexico in 2007, when she was a toddler, and they live in the Texas border city of Laredo.A cousin who is an American citizen took Rosa Maria from Laredo to a children's hospital in Corpus Christi on Oct. 24, where she was scheduled to have emergency gallbladder surgery. The American Civil Liberties Union and U.S. Rep. To get to Corpus Christi, about 150 miles 240 kilometres away, she had to pass through an interior checkpoint in South Texas operated by the Border Patrol. The Border Patrol has said it had no choice but to detain Rosa Maria, arguing that she was considered an unaccompanied minor under federal law, the same as a child who crosses into the United States alone without legal permission. Border Patrol agents followed Rosa Maria and the cousin to the hospital, then took the girl into custody after the surgery and transported her to a facility in San Antonio for unaccompanied immigrant minors, under the custody of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.