A 23-year-old Guatemalan woman in immigration detention, who has been denied surgery for a painful ovarian cyst for four months, was released earlier this week, her lawyers said. Andrea Pedro Francisco crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in 2019 with her mother seeking asylum and had been living in Minnesota ever since. In February, days before doctors […]
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Detained Guatemalan woman who required urgent ovarian surgery for months released by ICE
Andrea Pedro Francisco was scheduled for surgery to remove an ovarian cyst in February. Then ICE detained her in Texas, repeatedly denying her the procedures.