ACLU sues feds for keeping disabled 10-year-old detained
WASHINGTON -- The American Civil Liberties Union sued Customs and Border Protection and the Office of Refugee Resettlement on Tuesday for continuing to detain a 10-year-old undocumented girl with cerebral palsy.
The ACLU filed the case, R.M.H. v. Lloyd, in federal district court in San Antonio after CBP and ORR disregarded the group's demands to release the girl by 2:00 p.m. CT from a San Antonio detention center.
Border Patrol agents under CBP apprehended Rosa Maria Hernandez of Laredo at a Border Patrol checkpoint in an ambulance on her way to Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi for gallbladder surgery last week.
After the surgery, the agents escorted her to the Baptist Children’s Home Ministries shelter in San Antonio run by the ORR. The ORR is an office of the Administration for Children and Families within Health and Human Services that handles children apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security.
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