The deportation of Sofia: A family’s battle against Trump’s cruelty towards a sick little girl from Mexico

The deportation of Sofia: A family’s battle against Trump’s cruelty towards a sick little girl from Mexico

Sofia is four years old with dark curls, and wears a black backpack. It carries the constant supply of intravenous nutrition on which she depends due to short bowel syndrome, a condition that prevents her from absorbing nutrients like other children. Her mother Deysi Vargas says Sofia’s life is much better than it was before. The child was born in Mexico, where she spent two years going from hospital to hospital. She had six surgeries, blood infections, and was on the brink of death several times. In 2023, after a CBP One appointment, her family crossed over from Tijuana to San Diego. They did so legally thanks to humanitarian parole, and once in California, Sofia began to receive the treatment she needed. She was able to leave the hospital, go to parks, school, the supermarket. They were stable, thought her mother — until now. Donald Trump’s obsessive persecution of migrants turned toward Sofia. Her family received a deportation notice that, the child’s doctor says, could cost her life.

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