Mexican girl is granted humanitarian parole to continue receiving lifesaving care in US, lawyers say
LOS ANGELES AP A -year-old Mexican girl who receives lifesaving health care from a Southern California hospital was granted permission to remain in the country weeks after federal officials declared she could be deported her family s attorneys explained Tuesday Related Articles Bay Area cities called out in sanctuary list find themselves in crosshairs of immigration standoff Harrison Ruffin Tyler dies at he was the last living grandchild of President John Tyler Harvey Milk s name to be scrubbed from Navy ship Federal prisons must keep providing hormone therapy to transgender inmates a judge says The Trump administration is pushing therapy for transgender youth What does that look like The U S Department of Homeland Defense granted the girl and her mother humanitarian parole for one year so she can continue to receive rehabilitation she has been getting since arriving at the U S -Mexico dividing line in according to a copy of a letter received by Rebecca Brown an attorney for the family An email message was sent to the Department of Homeland Safeguard seeking comment The decision came after the family revealed they were notified in April and May that their humanitarian parole was being revoked and they would be subject to feasible deportation The Trump administration has been pushing to dismantle policies from President Joe Biden s administration that granted temporary legal status for certain displaced persons and allowed them to live legally in the U S generally for two years The girl was taken to a hospital upon arriving on at the U S -Mexico limit with her mother in and disclosed once she was stable enough She receives intravenous nutrition through a special backpack for short bowel syndrome which prevents her from being able to take in and process nutrients on her own and lawyers revealed the rehabilitation she receives is necessary at this stage for her to survive and isn t available in Mexico Humanitarian parole which doesn t put displaced persons on a path to U S citizenship was widely used during the Biden administration to alleviate pressure on the U S -Mexico southern perimeter It was previously used on a case-by-case basis to address individual emergencies and also for people fleeing humanitarian crises around the world including Vietnam Cambodia and Laos during the late s In Mexico the girl was largely confined to a hospital because of her clinical condition according to her mother Deysi Vargas After joining a scheme at Children s Hospital Los Angeles she can now receive cure at home in Bakersfield California and go to the park and store like other children Vargas has disclosed Lawyers declared the girl s anatomical medication which requires hours a day of intravenous nutrition will not be necessary indefinitely but that she is not at the point where she could live without it
