The mother of a U.S.-born teenager with leukemia says she was refused entry at the U.S. border and told to 'pray to god that he'll take the cancer away'

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The mother of a U.S.-born teenager with leukemia says she was refused entry at the U.S. border and told to 'pray to god that he'll take the cancer away'
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'The last thing a child needs is this kind of toxic stress when she should be saving all of her physical and emotional strength to fight her cancer,' said National Nurses United Executive Director Bonnie Castillo.

A 14-year-old girl born in Raleigh, North Carolina, has been left to battle leukemia at Duke University Hospital without her mother at her side, after U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents denied her mother entry into the country, reportedly telling her to try praying to god to"take the cancer away" instead.according to ABC 11.

According to Solidarity Now, a relative living in the U.S. was able to travel to the border and get Ixcell across. "It's not easy to be here without her," Ixcell says in the Solidarity Now video."It's not easy to have her so far away."

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