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March 3, 2017

ICE Releases Asylum Seeker in Texas to Seek Medical Treatment
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In an update to a story we reported on Thursday: ICE has released a
26-year-old Salvadoran asylum seeker who was removed from a Texas
hospital in handcuffs and taken back to a private jail after she had
been diagnosed with a brain tumor. On Thursday, Sara Beltran Hernandez
was granted a 15-thousand-dollar bond, and her family raised the total
sum to secure her freedom. Beltran issued a statement thanking
supporters who made calls for her release, saying "I can now get the
medical care I need and be reunited with my family."


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