How to Help Rosa Maria Hernandez
Updated: November 1 (Rosa Maria is still being detained without access to her family. The ACLU has filed a lawsuit. The ACLU recommends using its website to call the Office of Refugee Resettlement.)
Need any more evidence of the inhumanity of Trump era immigration policy? (Think: Baby Fatemah Reshad. Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos. Jeanette Vizguerra. Sara Beltran. Dany Vargas. Juan Manuel Montes. Miguel Perez, Jr. Daniel Ramirez.)
On Tuesday, October 24, Rosa Maria Hernandez, a 10 year old girl with cerebral palsy, was arrested in her hospital bed at Driscoll Children's Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents had followed her ambulance to the hospital and arrested her following emergency gall bladder surgery.
Rosa Maria has lived in the United States since she was 3 months old.
How to help Rosa Maria Hernandez
Sign this petition. (Thanks to Bonnie Kwon for the tip.)
Call US Immigration and Customs Enforcement at (888) 351-4024 to urge Rosa Maria's immediate release to her family.
Donate to Rosa Maria's legal fund.
Connect with and support groups defending immigrants and refugees, including:
United We Dream
Define American
Immigrant Legal Resource Center
Council on American Islamic Relations
Islamic Society of North America
National Council of La Raza
Desis Rising Up and Moving
Asian American Justice Center
National Immigration Project
Black Alliance for Just Immigration
Make the Road
National Day Laborer Organizing Network
New York Immigration Coalition
National Domestic Workers Alliance
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
