A child with brain cancer seeking treatment in Houston was deported along with her family following a stop at an immigration checkpoint. Per the Texas Civil Rights Project, a nonprofit legal advocacy and litigation group,

The 10-year-old girl along with her siblings and parents, who are from Mexico and had been living in Texas without legal status for more than a decade, were detained in early February at an immigration checkpoint in South Texas,

The Texas Civil Rights Project said two parents were given a choice to leave their citizen children in the United States or accompany them to Mexico.

The family was taking their daughter to an emergency medical checkup in Houston, Texas, when they were stopped at an immigration checkpoint.

The mother of a 10-year-old girl recovering from brain cancer who was removed to Mexico when her parents, who are undocumented were deported, is pleading for her family’s return to the U.S. for the girl's medical care.

The 10-year-old, who was diagnosed with brain cancer last year, was detained and deported at an immigration checkpoint

A ten-year-old U.S. citizen battling brain cancer was deported to Mexico along with her undocumented parents, reports NBC News. A ten-year-old girl, a U.S. citizen fighting brain cancer, was deported to Mexico with her parents,