Overview
- State lawmakers, clergy, and U.S. Rep. Angie Craig urged DHS to grant humanitarian parole at a Thursday news conference at the Minnesota Capitol.
- ICE arrested Andrea Pedro-Francisco, 23, in Burnsville on February 5th, days before her scheduled surgery, and transferred her to detention in El Paso, Texas.
- Doctors warn the tennis ball–sized ovarian cyst is a medical emergency that can twist the ovary, cut off blood flow, and lead to infection or death if untreated.
- DHS says medical staff have seen her more than six times with one emergency room evaluation confirming the cyst, while visitors report she only receives Tylenol and ibuprofen.
- Her habeas petition for release was denied this month by a federal judge in Texas, and advocates now allege ICE pressures detainees in medical crisis to self-deport.