The family of a 4-year-old Mexican girl being treated for a life-threatening illness was granted a reprieve from possible deportation Tuesday, with the federal government granting the family "humanitarian parole" allowing them to remain in the country for another year.

The girl, who was identified only as Sofia to protect her identity, suffers from a condition known as short bowel syndrome, requiring her to receive nutrition intravenously because she is unable to ingest it on her own. Attorneys for the family say any interruption in her medical care, even for a brief period of time, will be fatal.

"The doctors at (Children's Hospital Los Angeles) have said that if the child's treatment is interrupted, she will die within days," attorney Gina Amato Lough said last week as the family plead

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