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A 23-year-old Burnsville woman scheduled to have an ovarian cyst removed on Feb. 11 is in ICE custody in Texas, her condition worsening by the day, advocates said.
Andrea Pedro-Francisco’s Feb. 5 arrest interrupted her medical care and pain treatment, and efforts to gain her release have been fruitless, U.S. Rep. Angie Craig said on Monday.
A Burnsville, Minnesota, woman who was supposed to have an ovarian cyst removed but was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents days before her surgery is living in severe pain, according to her lawyer.
Rep. Angie Craig is demanding the release of Andrea Pedro-Francisco so she can get the proper care she needs, because it could mean life or death. The 23-year-old has an ovarian cyst the size of a tennis ball that needs to be removed.
U.S. Rep. Angie Craig called on the Trump administration on Monday to release a woman in ICE detention who is suffering from a tennis ball-sized ovarian cyst at risk of rupture and needing urgent medical treatment.
“I am not exaggerating when I say that this is a life-or-death situation,” Craig said on Monday.
U.S. Rep. Angie Craig made an unannounced visit on Thursday to the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, the hub of the Trump administration’s deportation operations in Minnesota. Thousands of immigrants have passed through Whipple on the way to jails and detention facilities across the country.
Craig, a Democrat representing the south metro, said she came to verify the Trump administration’s compliance with a judge’s order affirming that members of Congress may conduct unannounced inspections of immigration facilities.
A woman arrested in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge must remain in an immigration detention facility in Texas pending deportation proceedings even as she suffers excruciating pain from a large ovarian cyst at risk of rupture, a federal judge ruled.
House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Angie Craig says farmers are facing mounting financial stress as Congress works to finalize a new farm bill. Craig says current aid has fallen short of covering widespread losses across agriculture. “The $12 billion that’s been sent in farm aid really doesn’t cover much of the $40 to $45 billion in losses that farmers have faced over the last year,” Craig said, adding she will continue pushing for year-round E-15 and a more bipartisan final bill.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it will use its existing authority to prevent drivers from losing access to lower-cost and lower-emission E15, a higher ethanol blend often marketed as Unleaded 88. In response, Ohio farmer and National Corn Growers Association President Jed Bower released the following statement:
U.S. Representative Angie Craig, who serves Minnesota’s 2nd district in Congress, has recently posted a series of statements on social media addressing federal actions and their impacts on her state and the nation.
In her closing comments, Ranking Member Angie Craig said the farm bill delivers the status quo. “Folks, it is not status quo in farm country; a global trade war has left devastating impacts on our nation’s farmers and the farm assistance offered thus far by this administration is a fraction of the need,” said the Minnesota Democrat. “We offered to help farmers and families during this markup, but apparently, we can only spend money when it cuts taxes for the wealthy in this country, as my colleagues voted for in reconciliation last year.