4 American citizens deported to Mexico.
Friday, 14 Mar 2025
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-citizen-child-recovering-brain-cancer-deported-mexico-undocumented-rcna196049
There was a girl I met in Mexico. She was the daughter of undocumented immigrants to the US. Her parents immigrated when they were young, and grew up in the US. But for whatever godawful reason, they went back to Mexico to give birth to her. And then she spent her whole life growing up in the US.
And then she was deported. And she didn’t speak shit for Spanish. And she was the only member of her family. Her siblings were born in the US, and her parents were the parents of US citizens.
In summary, the family lives in Mexico in Rio Grande but their child’s specialist doctor is in the U.S. in Texas. The family has historically, regularly crossed the border to seek treatment for the youngest daughter’s cancer and have always had medical documentation of the condition and medical need for the treatments. But since the parents are not citizens and do not have legal immigration status, they were deported along with the children when trying to cross the most recent time in February for emergency cancer checkup/treatment. It also seems like the other 3 children are also U.S. citizens.
That said, this is cruel. Legal immigration status has always been difficult to get for any reason other than day labor (in some places along the border), tourism, and gainful employment or education. Medical treatment, even for a child, doesn’t really fit into any of those and to my understanding, a medical visa is only given for people seeking treatment from the National Institute of Health (NIH) in cases where treatment is medically necessary and unavailable in the applicants’ home country. This is a situation where it really seems like this family found the best treatment for their daughter just across the border, seemingly afforded such treatment, and just moved back and forth for treatment and checkups. This should be allowable. If not for compassion to the family; but also for the simple fact that this family is buying American healthcare without taking more resources by staying in the U.S.
Edit:
It seems like the family was living in TX. As Rio Grande is a city in TX on the border. Apologies, I thought Rio was a town on the MX side of the border. So the parents were living as undocumented aliens getting treatment for their daughter’s cancer. They seemingly crossed an internal immigration checkpoint.
Nonetheless, my argument is still that this is cruel and entirely unnecessary. But as many of you have said, the cruelty is the point.
Special brand of evil about. This MAGA Isn’t great, it’s Gruesome.
The amount of uninformed vile comments about human beings in here is something else.
The cruelty is the point.
They can’t just deport American citizens like that can they?
Well I guess they can since they did but when did that become legal?
This is a joke. They’re probably better off in Mexico at this point. More freedoms.
I thought they were only taking criminals? Or are they saving those for trump cabinet positions?
Misleading title… 4 us citizens were not deported, their illegal parents decided to take them with to their home country of Mexico vs kids (born in US) being placed into foster care.
Since the child is a citizen, I am assuming Medicaid/CHIP is paying? Is that why they were targeted?
The Trump administration can demonize immigrants all they want, but it is THIS country that has lost its humanity.
Any additional context?
Why is this headline so misleading?
So “pro-life” are these “Christian” Republicans that they are willing to let a child potentially die because her parents, who have no criminal record, didn’t have the correct set of papers. Keep in mind, illegally immigrating into the US is civil offense and is handled by civil court statutes. It does not warrant a death sentence.
I’m confused, if there’s citizens how are they deported? I thought they were only deporting people that came here illegally.
Republicans are ghouls
So should we have separate them? I mean keeping them all together is more humane. Also I’m sure the amazing socialized medical system in Mexico will do just fine to help cure the cancer. We wish them well.
It’s a sad situation by all means. The parents knew the risks and were willing to take a gamble. It all worked out until it did not. I’m sure Mexico has great doctors, too, and the child will get the adequate medical she so desperately needs.
Pro life until the child’s out of the womb
Daily reminder that hate won.
This made my stomach hurt
hitler took some of his models of racism from the us and trump is taking them right back
Well, families can be deported together, that is more humane than separating them and the child trafficking the last 4 years. At least the kids are safe.
This action did not make America great again…in fact it gets piled onto the huge mountain the GOP are building to break our gov’t and leave us all vulnerable to fascist dictatorship. So yes this is just sating someone’s lust for cruelty.
Not so anchor babies
Sadly, this is what the majority of people who voted want and support.
They’re in a less racist country now, right? Reddit must be ecstatic for them.
Do you know how many Americans get taken away from their families for breaking the law? Millions. You break the law, and you suffer the consequences. It’s not that difficult.
Misleading title. Parents were deported, children were allowed to stay with parents.
Many would argue children shouldn’t be considered citizens, I won’t get into that since not relevant to misleading story.
Be specific or don’t even bother.
Well…………Bai
So the parents are illegal immigrants and had 4 kids in the US?
Okay, now I’m going to have a take most people will find shitty, and it’s not me NOT empathizing with the family, but if you come to the country illegally then it is entirely irresponsible to have children here knowing what your own status is.
The girls condition is truly sad, and these children ARE American born citizens so they have a right to live in this country. The administration is shit. The people who applaud in support of what the admin is doing are shit. But I still can’t help but think if I were in the parents position of being in a country illegally knowing that one wrong move could mean my deportation, I would not be having children, potentially putting them in the crossfire.
Further proof that the kid with brain cancer at the state of the nation address was a prop.
This is NOT okay. The American people will not stand for this. No more.
republicans dont care about citizenship. its about white and brown. project 2025 is about genocide and getting rid of brown people.
I was in the Army and 4 of my children were born outside of the US and it’s unbelievable the crap they go through to prove they are US citizens even though they hold US passports. The Birth Registration Abroad from a Consulate might as well be toilet paper.
The biggest problem people have when law enforcement or the government do things like this is the time it takes to rectify a situation AND holding the people that do it accountable.
People say “do as the officer says, even if they arrest you”. The problem with that is it doesn’t come off your arrest record when you are acquitted/ charged dropped etc. you have to petition the court to get it removed AND pay for it, possible even prove you didn’t deserve to be arrested….all with no accountability to the law enforcement that did it. This doesn’t takes days or weeks, it can be months or years, resulting in lost wages, lost jobs, not being able to get a job etc.
The parents have a lot to answer for, poor life decisions got them to this point.
But nobody touches nazi migrant from South Africa.
Ghouls — I’m not sure I can think of any other way to describe the type of person who could do this…
There’s no HATE like Christian loveÂ
Is America Great yet?
Let’s be real, they weren’t deported, their parents were deported and the parents chose to take the children with them.