Bureaucracy vs. humanity: Border Patrol arrests 10-year-old recovering from surgery
by Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Content Agency
Nov 01, 2017
3 minutes
Basically, it's kidnapping.
Were the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents wearing MAGA hats when they grabbed Rosa Maria Hernandez as she left her hospital room?
"It's a shocking case -- the most outrageous case I've ever seen. Is it a preview of things to come?" ACLU attorney Michael Tan said to me about the incident, shortly after the civil rights group filed suit against the federal government demanding the 10-year-old child's release from a detention facility in Texas, 150 miles from her home in Laredo.
Rosa Maria, who
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