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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Dani Anguiano

White House restores legal status of child with life-threatening illness

person wearing white jacket holds child wearing pink jacket
Deysi Vargas picks up her four-year-old daughter at a news conference in Los Angeles, California on Wednesday. Photograph: Jae C Hong/AP

The Trump administration has reversed its decision to revoke the legal status of a four-year-old girl, receiving ocontinuing life-saving treatment in the US, and her family after a national outcry.

Deysi Vargas, her husband and their daughter – whom lawyers identified by the pseudonym Sofia – had come to the US in 2023 to seek medical care for their daughter who has a rare condition that requires specialized treatment. But in April, the federal government ended their humanitarian parole, a temporary status granted to people on urgent humanitarian grounds, and ordered them to “self-deport”.

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