San Antonio and Rosa

aclu: The Border Patrol has said its agents took the child into custody last week after emergency gallbladder surgery out of concern for her welfare because she was not with her parents, but an adult cousin, according to Metro News. But the ACLU argues in its lawsuit that Rosa Maria's detention violates federal law and puts her health at risk. The ACLU filed a lawsuit in federal court in San Antonio, where Rosa Maria Hernandez, whose parents brought her to the U.S. from Mexico a decade ago, is being held in a facility for unaccompanied minors who have entered the country illegally. Nothing stops the government right now from returning Rosa Maria to the family she's lived with her entire life, said Michael Tan, an attorney for the ACLU. Rosa Maria was 3 months old when her parents brought her into the United States from Mexico in 2007, said Leticia Gonzalez, an attorney for the family. Gonzalez says that due to her cerebral palsy, Rosa Maria has the mental capacity of a child who is 4 or 5 years old. Her parents are also in the U.S. without legal authorization and live in the Texas border city of Laredo. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.