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Critically Ill Girl Facing Deportation Could Die Within Days If Care Halted

  • A critically ill 4-year-old girl named Sofia, diagnosed with short bowel syndrome, faces deportation from the U.S. in 2025 despite receiving life-saving treatment in California.
  • Her family received humanitarian parole in 2023 to seek medical care, but the Trump administration revoked this status and ordered them to leave, risking interruption of essential treatment.
  • Sofia undergoes Total Parenteral Nutrition every six weeks at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, which depends on U.S.-based healthcare infrastructure that cannot be provided if she returns to Mexico.
  • Dr. John Arsenault stated in a letter that halting Sofia’s nutrition could be fatal within days, while her attorney Rebecca Brown called this a “textbook example of medical need” with no justification for death.
  • The family’s potential deportation highlights the conflict between immigration enforcement and urgent medical care, suggesting that continued legal protection is critical to Sofia's survival.
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Sofia is four years old, dark curls and a black backpack on her back. There she carries the intravenous feeding on which she depends daily, because of her short bowel syndrome, a condition that prevents her from absorbing nutrients and the difference of the rest of the children. Her life, her mother Deysi Vargas has told, is much better now than before. She was born in Mexico, where she spent two years of hospital in hospital. She was operated s…

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Sofía (her real name hasn't been published to respect her privacy), a four-year-old girl, likes to go to the grocery store and the park with her mother. Something that would seem normal to any child, right?

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Defenders of migrants increased calls to elected officials to intervene in favor of a four-year-old Mexican girl who receives life-saving treatment in the United States and is exposed to deportation from the United States along with her family.Sofía, as the girl has been identified by the lawyers of the Public Counsel organization, suffers from short bowel syndrome, a life-threatening condition that prevents her body from absorbing enough nutrie…

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The New Republic broke the news in on Tuesday, May 27, 2025.
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