Deported family of U.S. citizen girl with rare brain tumor denied humanitarian parole

In Mexico, the girl’s condition has worsened and she’s not getting the specialized care she needs, her family said in an exclusive interview with NBC News.

The deported mother of a U.S. citizen child who was recovering from a rare brain tumor recently found out she was denied a humanitarian request to return to the United States to continue her daughter’s specialized medical treatment.

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It was not the answer she was hoping for after a more than 10-month wait.

“It was something very frustrating ... and very difficult,” the mother said from Mexico in Spanish. “It felt like a bucket of boiling water — or maybe cold water, I don’t even know — was thrown at me.”