Texas mom deported after missed immigration hearing following emergency C-section, family attorney says

Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it was following the orders of an immigration judge and the parents decided for the infants to go to Mexico with her.

A Texas mother says she was unfairly deported to Mexico and forced to depart the U.S. with her four children after missing an immigration court hearing because she was recovering from delivering premature newborn twins by emergency C-section.

Infants Ashley and Allison, both of whom are U.S. citizens born in Houston, have been enduring pneumonia and bronchitis, often needing oxygen masks to breathe, since arriving to Mexico, Salazar-Hinojosa told Noticias Telemundo in Spanish.

“I feel bad, I feel devastated to see my daughters sick," she said.

According to the family, the chain of events started on Sept. 13, when the twins were born at 35 weeks.

"I had to have an emergency C-section. My babies were born prematurely. I was very ill because of my hemorrhage,” Salazar-Hinojosa said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/texas-mom-deported-newborn-twins-rcna184737

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