9-year-old US girl detained for crossing US-Mexico border
- By Web Desk -
- Mar 22, 2019
WASHINGTON: United States (US) customs and Border Protection officials apprehended a nine years old girl and her 14-year-old brother, despite being US citizens, for more than 30 hours over crossing the US-Mexico border.
Her family said that the US Border Protection officials took the girl and her brother into custody when they crossed the US-Mexico border earlier this week.
Her mother Thelma Galaxia told the journalists that her daughter, Julia Isabel Amparo Medina had been stopped on the routine journey from her home in Tijuana, Mexico to her school just over the border in San Ysidro, California
She said that Medina was being driven by a family friend, Michelle Cardenas, along with her 14-year-old brother and two other children.
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