A family of Mexican immigrants whose daughter was being treated for brain cancer were arrested on their way to an emergency medical visit in Houston and removed from the U.S. last month. The 10-year-old girl and four of her five siblings are American citizens,

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

The Texas family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup, they said, when they were detained at an immigration checkpoint.

As a 10-year-old girl with brain cancer and her family traveled from Rio Grande, Texas, to Houston for an emergency checkup in early February, immigration officers detained her, her undocumented parents and her four other siblings.