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January 30, 2020

Wonkette: Kickass Congresswomen Help Sick Migrant Six-Year-Old Girl

From Wonkette:

In the bleak hellscape of Donald Trump’s immigration policy, we occasionally get glimpses of hope and moments of good news, like this story of how several members of Congress managed to get help for a 6-year-old girl with Down syndrome and a heart condition. The girl and her family — her mother and an eight-year-old brother — fled Central America, and had passed an initial screening in their asylum case. But under the Trump administration’s latest strategy to restrict asylum, they were still forced to stay for three months in an unsafe camp in Matamoros, Mexico. Earlier this month, a congressional delegation managed to arrange entry to the US for the girl and her family, a day after US Customs and Border Protection had refused to let her into the country.

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