The child's family was reportedly on its way to an emergency medical checkup in Houston when border officials stopped them.

The Texas family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup, they said, when they were detained at an immigration checkpoint.

At the time, the parents were given a choice: to have their children stay in the U.S. without them, or to have the children deported alongside the parents. Five of the six children were U.S. citizens.