American Citizen: Corpus Christi and Border Patrol

american citizen: Joaquin Castro said that Rosamaria Hernandez was returned Friday afternoon to her family, according to Toronto Star. 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 Rosamaria from Laredo to a children's hospital in Corpus Christi on Oct. 24, where she was scheduled to have emergency gallbladder surgery. The ACLU and U.S. Rep. To get to Corpus Christi, about 240 kilometres away, she had to pass through an interior checkpoint in South Texas operated by the Border Patrol. Article Continued Below The Border Patrol has said it had no choice but to detain Rosamaria, 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. Read more U.S. immigration agents detain 10-year-old girl after stopping her on the way to emergency surgery Border Patrol agents followed Rosamaria 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.