4-year-old girl in Bakersfield facing deportation could die within days of losing medical care (humanitarian permission terminated) reinstated

essentialsaltes · May 27, 2025

In 2023, a Mexican girl with a life-threatening medical condition was allowed to enter the U.S. legally on humanitarian grounds.
The Trump administration has now ordered the girl and her parents to leave the country.
One of the girl’s physicians says that if her treatment is interrupted, “this could be fatal within a matter of days.”

The girl was a year delayed [in walking] because she had spent most of her short life in a hospital in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, tethered to feeding tubes 24 hours a day. She has short bowel syndrome, a rare condition that prevents her body from completely absorbing the nutrients of regular food.

In 2023, they received temporary humanitarian permission to enter the U.S. legally through Tijuana.

Now in Bakersfield, the family received notice last month that their legal status had been terminated.

The thought of being forced by immigration agents to return to Mexico terrifies [mom] Vargas.

“I know the treatment they have there for her is not adequate, because we already lived it,” she said. “Those were bad times. Here she is living the most normal life possible.”

Brown, their lawyer, submitted a petition for a continuation of their temporary humanitarian legal status based on S.G.V.’s medical condition. She believes the family’s legal status was prematurely terminated by mistake.

President Trump lambasted Biden over his broad expansion of programs allowing humanitarian entry, known as parole. On his first day in office, Trump issued an executive order to ensure that the discretionary authority be “exercised on only a case-by-case basis” for urgent humanitarian reasons or a significant public benefit.

[But ICE needs to meet those quotas. This is a three-fer]

The Trump administration has stripped humanitarian protections from hundreds of thousands of immigrants who entered the U.S. under various Biden-era programs. Thousands of people who similarly entered the country using the CBP One app received notices from the federal government around the same time Vargas did, ordering them to leave voluntarily or face criminal prosecution and other legal actions.

NxNW · May 27, 2025

I thought the GOP claimed to care about the lives of children?

iluvatar5150 · May 27, 2025

NxNW said:
I thought the GOP claimed to care about the lives of children?

Nithavela · May 27, 2025

There's no need to keep someone around out of mercy when mercy has run out.

Aryeh Jay · May 27, 2025

NxNW said:
I thought the GOP claimed to care about the lives of children?

Some children more than others.

sanderabeer · May 27, 2025

NxNW said:
I thought the GOP claimed to care about the lives of children?

They do, unborn children. Living children, not so much.

Richard T · May 27, 2025

Nithavela said:
There's no need to keep someone around out of mercy when mercy has run out.

God's mercies are new every morning and from the LA Times article in the thread, it looks like the mercies given by God through America are working pretty well. I hope she gets to stay as her medical condition and medical staff is so much better here.

Nithavela · May 27, 2025

Richard T said:
God's mercies are new every morning and from the LA Times article in the thread, it looks like the mercies given by God through America are working pretty well. I hope she gets to stay as her medical condition and medical staff is so much better here.

Why does she need the mercy of the USA when god's mercy is plenty?

iluvatar5150 · May 27, 2025

Nithavela said:
Why does she need the mercy of the USA when god's mercy is plenty?

Surely, the church will provide in the absence of assistance from the state.

Nithavela · May 27, 2025

iluvatar5150 said:
Surely, the church will provide in the absence of assistance from the state.

Don't they have a church whereever she's from?

iluvatar5150 · May 27, 2025

Nithavela said:
Don't they have a church whereever she's from?

I'm not sure. Maybe we should send some missionaries with her when she goes back where belongs.

Richard T · May 27, 2025

Nithavela said:
Why does she need the mercy of the USA when god's mercy is plenty?

God uses people and their nations to bring His mercy. Sure she can perhaps go to Germany or somewhere else. Still, if America closes its borders to bona fide humanitarian missions, then I would expect less blessing. If a girl lives due to a great American policy who gets the blessing? America
Why? It is better to give than receive
Matthew 19:14 "But Jesus said, "Let the little children come to Me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.
Here Jesus overrode the disciples wishes. Why? because He had compassion. There is no law against love. The girl in the USA represents love. Sure you can remove her and love too but all you have left is basically a hateful nation. We have been on that path for some time, but it is accelerating. America first some say? Well, the first shall be last and the last will be first.

Matthew 5:7 "Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy"

RileyG · May 27, 2025

NxNW said:
I thought the GOP claimed to care about the lives of children?

Not all GOP members are alike. There are cruel people everywhere, sadly.

RileyG · May 27, 2025

Nithavela said:
Why does she need the mercy of the USA when god's mercy is plenty?

*God

CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN · May 28, 2025

RileyG said:
Not all GOP members are alike. There are cruel people everywhere, sadly.

The GOP is leading into in non caring . That cartàin people really don't matter.

Nithavela said:
Don't they have a church where ever she's from?

The care in Mexico wasn't good enough for her needs. That why people, got her to get help in America. Trump squashed it. That's were the United States is headed. This goes against God's people. But they are to busy watching news source. That tell them lies. So, they don't know what's really going on.

Richard T · May 28, 2025

Nithavela said:
Why does she need the mercy of the USA when god's mercy is plenty?

The general meaning is to have compassion or mercy on a person in unhappy circumstances.
Complete Word Study Dictionary.
Is it God's will that she lives? Absolutely. Is it God's will that she be loosed from her suffering? Absolutely. Jesus came to give abundant life, the thief comes to kill, steal and destroy. So God arranges her circumstances to alleviate her pain and suffering. If the vessel (Country and or individuals) God chooses refuses to offer mercy. Then they too will receive what they have sown.
Matthew 5:7 (KJV)
7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

essentialsaltes · Jun 4, 2025

Bakersfield girl who faced deportation and loss of lifesaving medical care is allowed to stay in U.S.

In April, Vargas received notice from the federal government that their humanitarian protections and permission to work legally had been terminated. The notice told them to leave voluntarily or else “the federal government will find you.”

[Public Counsel attorney Brown] said that when the family’s parole was terminated, there was no way to alert the immigration agency that a child’s life was in danger.

“It took an international outcry and pressure from elected officials to get a response — something that used to take a single phone call,” Brown wrote in the statement with Public Counsel directing attorney Gina Amato Lough.

In a statement, lawyers representing the girl wrote that on May 28 — after significant news coverage — U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services contacted them to discuss processing her application for humanitarian parole. She and her mother, Deysi Vargas, attended a biometrics appointment in Bakersfield on Friday.

Last week, 38 congressional Democrats, including California Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff, condemned the termination of the family’s status and urged the Department of Homeland Security to reinstate it.

In a letter Monday to the family and their attorney, acting field office director Carmen Paniagua of Citizenship and Immigration Services wrote that “effective June 2, 2025, you have been granted Humanitarian Parole for a period of one year.”

bèlla · Jun 4, 2025

I have mixed feelings about this honestly. If we were meeting our needs I could support the work without concern. But a lot of things are going unmet and this is definitely expensive. I don’t think this will end well in the long run. Not necessarily this situation but our willingness to help others while neglecting citizens. The more things worsen the more you’ll hear things along these lines.

~bella

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