A Burnsville woman could die if she’s not released from immigration detention for medical care, her lawyer warned on Monday.
Andrea Pedro-Francisco, 23, is originally from Guatemala and has lived with her family in Burnsville since 2019. She was arrested by immigration agents on her way to work in early February and sent to a detention center in El Paso, Texas, just days before she was scheduled for surgery to remove a large ovarian cyst.
At a press conference in Burnsville, Asra Syed said her client’s pain was so great that Pedro-Francisco’s doctor prescribed her an opioid before she was arrested. Syed said in detention Pedro-Francisco was given Tylenol as her cyst grew to the size of a tennis ball…