KISSIMMEE, Fla. — A mother and her adult daughter, both from Ecuador, were led out of a Central Florida hospital in handcuffs this week, only days after a highway wreck nearly killed them — a case that has reignited a running argument over how far federal immigration agents can go once someone is already in a hospital bed.
Grace Calero, who is 39, and her daughter Giulianna Carriel, 19, were traveling a Florida highway on Thursday, August 20, when an oncoming car veered across the center line into their path, sending their vehicle into a rollover. Paramedics freed both women from the wreck and brought them to HCA Florida Poinciana Hospital in nearby Kissimmee, where doctors placed a neck brace on Calero for her injuries while Carriel was evaluated for the shock of the collision. Neither woman had been discharged when a second ordeal began.
