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Hospitalized Salvadoran woman returned to North Texas detention center

A 26-year-old Salvadoran woman, who has a brain tumor, is being held in a North Texas immigration detention center. Her attorneys are trying to get her out and get her the proper medical care.

by Stella M. Chávez, KERA News

The Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, about 30 miles south of Fort Worth.
Credit: RAICES

A 26-year-old Salvadoran woman, who has a brain tumor, is being held in a North Texas immigration detention center. Her attorneys are trying to get her out and get her the proper medical care.

Read the full story at KERAnews.org.

Related Tribune coverage:

  • A three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans dismissed a case brought against the state over a provision of Texas law that prohibits "concealing, harboring, or shielding" undocumented immigrants.
  • Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller on Thursday left the tough talk on immigration in Austin while he held a historic press conference on one of the country's busiest international bridges to Mexico.
  • Texas counties are facing financial pressures on both sides of a highly politicized debate over their role in enforcing federal immigration laws. Just look at Dallas County.

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Stella M. Chávez

KERA NEWS

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