Family deported with ill American child need to return for care, lawyers say

Harlingen, Texas (Border Report) — A family that was deported from South Texas to Mexico earlier this year is struggling to receive medical care for their severely ill daughter and they desperately want to return.

Lawyers with the Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP), who are representing the Hernandez family, on Thursday said the parents, Juan and Maria, have been waiting south of the border since February for permission from the Department of Homeland Security to return to the United States. 

Garza was flanked by several congressional representatives who in May visited the family in Monterrey, Mexico, where they have since been relocated.

This includes Texas Democratic U.S. Reps. Joaquin Castro and Sylvia Garcia, of Texas, as well as Adriano Espaillat, of New York.

“Their parents were told you either take them or they stay with us and you’ll never see them again. One of them, of course, is Sara, an 11-year-old little girl who has a life and death condition, and she has not been able to get the health care that she deserves because now she is in Mexico,” said Espaillat, chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.