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BBC News By Patricia Sulbarán Lovera image captionLuisa wrote a letter to a member of Congress asking to be released A mother and her daughter, both from El Salvador, have spent more than 500 days at an immigration detention centre in the US, despite a rule limiting the detention of under-age migrants to a maximum of 20 days. Luisa has the sweet voice of a nine-year-old girl, but she sometimes sounds wise beyond her years. She has had to write letters to legislators, asking authorities to release her and Ariana , her mother, from a US government detention centre for migrant families. ....
US plans family deportations, including girl with broken arm by Nomaan Merchant, The Associated Press Posted Dec 17, 2020 7:15 pm EDT Last Updated Dec 17, 2020 at 7:26 pm EDT HOUSTON The U.S. government is preparing to deport more than a dozen children and their parents held at a Texas immigration detention centre, including a 4-year-old girl with a broken arm requiring surgery, according to lawyers for the families. Medical records show that doctors at the Dilley, Texas, detention centre diagnosed the girl with a fracture and prescribed painkillers due to the ongoing injury. A doctor on Dec. 1 noted a “greenish spot” on the girl’s right elbow and said that “surgery is needed within 6 months to 1 year,” according to medical records reviewed by The Associated Press. ....
Reply(1) Lawyers argue the families facing deportation were never given a fair chance to seek asylum under several policies enacted by President Donald Trump’s administration. (Shutterstock) HOUSTON, TX The U.S. government is preparing to deport more than a dozen children and their parents held at a Texas immigration detention center, including a 4-year-old girl with a broken arm requiring surgery, according to lawyers for the families. Medical records show that doctors at the Dilley, Texas, detention center diagnosed the girl with a fracture and prescribed painkillers, including hydrocodone, due to the ongoing injury. A doctor on Dec. 1 noted a greenish spot on the girl s right elbow and said that surgery is needed within 6 months to 1 year, according to medical records reviewed by The Associated Press. ....
Published December 18. 2020 12:15AM By NOMAAN MERCHANT, Associated Press HOUSTON The U.S. government is preparing to deport more than a dozen children and their parents held at a Texas immigration detention center, including a 4-year-old girl with a broken arm requiring surgery, according to lawyers for the families. Medical records show that doctors at the Dilley, Texas, detention center diagnosed the girl with a fracture and prescribed painkillers, including hydrocodone, due to the ongoing injury. A doctor on Dec. 1 noted a “greenish spot” on the girl s right elbow and said that “surgery is needed within 6 months to 1 year,” according to medical records reviewed by The Associated Press. ....