Reprieve for critically ill Mexican girl, 4, who could have died within days if deported under Trump order

Sofia Vargas, 4, right, and her mother Deysi Vargas. Sofia and her family were targeted for deportation by the Trump administration, but will now be allowed to stay in the U.S. on Humanitarian Parole - (Jeremy Cohen/Courtesy of Public Counsel)

The family of a four-year-old girl from California who is suffering from a rare disease will be spared deportation so that she can continue to receive life-saving medical treatment in the U.S.

The family was granted temporary humanitarian permission to enter the U.S. from her home country of Mexico in 2023 after the little girl, Sofia, urgently needed treatment for short bowel syndrome, a rare condition that stops her from absorbing nutrients in food. The treatment she required was not available in Mexico and she condition was worsening, according to the family's lawyers.