Family of girl recovering from brain surgery describes 'serious abuses' while detained in US
Also: Deported family of U.S. citizen girl recovering from brain surgery alleges civil rights abuses in new complaint (NBC News)
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Source: The Guardian
Family of girl recovering from brain surgery describes ‘serious abuses’ while detained in US
US citizen girl deported with mixed-status family, who filed complaint over denied healthcare and poor conditions
Anna Betts
Tue 18 Mar 2025 16.15 GMT
Last modified on Tue 18 Mar 2025 16.48 GMT
A family that was recently removed from the United States to Mexico has filed a complaint seeking an investigation into what they describe as “serious abuses” they say they faced during their detention in the US prior to their removal.
The mixed-status family includes two undocumented parents and six children, five of whom are US citizens. On 4 February, five of the children, including four who are US citizens, and the two parents were removed from Texas and sent to Mexico after they were stopped at an immigration checkpoint.
One of the children, a 10-year-old girl, is recovering from brain cancer surgery, and the family says she has faced significant disruptions in her medical care since the family’s removal.
The complaint, filed on Monday with the Department of Homeland Security’s office for civil rights and civil liberties on behalf of the family by the Texas Civil Rights Project legal advocacy organization, alleges that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) committed “serious abuses” while the family was detained.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/deported-family-girl-brain-cancer
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Source: NBC News
Deported family of U.S. citizen girl recovering from brain surgery alleges civil rights abuses in new complaint (NBC News)
Attorneys are requesting a probe into abuses they say the family faced in U.S. detention and urging immigration authorities to grant humanitarian parole to the undocumented parents.
March 17, 2025, 4:59 PM EDT
By Nicole Acevedo
A family that was deported to Mexico is requesting an investigation into abuses they say they faced in U.S. detention, according to a civil rights complaint first obtained by NBC News. The mixed-immigration status family, including four U.S. citizen children, one of whom is a 10-year-old girl recovering from brain surgery, are in an area of Mexico where, they say, they fear for their safety.
The Texas Civil Rights Project, a legal advocacy and litigation organization representing the family, filed the complaint Monday with the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties on behalf of the family.
The complaint alleges that Customs and Border Protection, which detained and deported the family last month, committed “serious abuses” when it denied medical care to the 10-year-old girl, detained U.S. citizen children “in deplorable conditions” and removed them to Mexico, “where their lives are in peril because of their status as U.S. citizens,” among other claims.
The Trump administration’s border czar, Tom Homan, has said “families can be deported together” regardless of status. Homan said it would be up to the parents to decide whether to depart the U.S. together or leave their children behind. In this case, the parents took their children with them so the family could stay together.
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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/deported-family-us-citizen-girl-brain-surgery-alleges-abuse-rcna196705
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