The teenage girl with pigtail braids was hunched over in a wheelchair and holding a bunched sweatshirt when an immigrant advocate met her at a crowded Border Patrol facility in Texas. She opened the sweatshirt and the advocate gasped. It was a tiny baby, born premature and held in detention...
Valley's Own Tiny Baby Remains an 'Amazing Story'
Imagine a baby born only 24 weeks into his mother's normal 40-week pregnancy, weighing only 12.7 ounces. That's the equivalent of a can of soda. Tyson Perez was delivered by cesarean section in August 2011 at St. Agnes Medical Center and rushed to Valley Children's Hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit....