After a family in Texas was deported to Mexico — including a 10-year-old daughter with brain cancer who is a U.S. citizen — three Hispanic Democrats made the trip across the border on Friday to visit the family.
The lawmakers — Reps. Adriano Espaillat, Sylvia Garcia and Joaquin Castro — made the stop in the hopes of bringing attention to the issue of mixed-status families being deported from the United States.
The parents, who are undocumented, were deported with their 10-year-old daughter and her four siblings in February, after a routine stop at a border checkpoint on their way from Rio Grande City to Houston for an emergency checkup for the daughter, according to NBC News.