Trump to Deport Kids With Cancer, HIV, and Other Deadly Illnesses

[Marilyn MonHoe 11,011]

The Trump administration has reportedly ended a program which allowed immigrants with serious illnesses to temporarily remain in the U.S., a move by the White House that rights advocates decried as "a death sentence" for children receiving treatment for cancer, HIV, and other life-threatening diseases.

Reporting from local NPR affiliate WBUR said the "medical deferred action" program permitted immigrants to stay in the U.S. for two-year periods if they could demonstrate "extreme medical need."

"Many of the people affected by the policy change came to the U.S. through a visa or other permitted status and are requesting to stay beyond those terms to receive medical treatment," WBUR reported Monday.

Immigrants living and receiving medical care in Massachusetts learned of the Trump administration's policy change when they received letters from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services earlier this month warning them they will be deported if they don't leave the country in 33 days.

According to CommonWealth Magazine, the immigrants facing deportation include children with "children with cancer, cystic fibrosis, HIV, and other illnesses.

During a press conference on Monday, Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) blastedthe Trump administration's "inhumanity" and characterized the change in policy as an effort to "terrorize sick kids with cancer who are literally fighting for their lives."

"This is a new low for Trump," said Markey. "The administration is now literally deporting kids with cancer."

The ACLU of Massachusetts vowed to take legal action to stop the Trump administration's latest attack on immigrants.

"We will take this fight to the courts," saidCarol Rose, executive director of ACLU Massachusetts. "Lawyers are analyzing options right now."

Source: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/27/death-sentence-trump-reportedly-moving-deport-kids-cancer-hiv-and-other-deadly

 

I’m convinced Trump and his Republican goons are trying to kill immigrants. He’s already rescinded so many medical protections for immigrants but it looks like that’s not enough. They are evil.

[Marilyn MonHoe 11,011]

Imagine trying to say that you’re pro life but you support someone who does things like this. Do Republicans just not care about these immigrants because their skin is brown? 

[whore 11,447]

The title is a little clickbaity but it definitely piqued my interest 

[Reginald 13,841]

Pure unsympathetic evil. This man has to be stopped. 

[Marilyn MonHoe 11,011]

4 minutes ago, Loeppke said:

The title is a little clickbaity but it definitely piqued my interest 

But it’s based on facts though 

[Swallow 12,052]

Reading the title I already knew it was inaccurate but I clicked anyway

[River 127,463]

When it's liberal stuff like lgbt rights, his supporters go like this

But when it comes to deport kids with deadly illness, they don't think about the children.. they support this.

[ALGAYDO 35,122]

Basically murder. I want any trump supporter who defends this to explain themselves. ****ing vile. 

[Lord Temptation 11,209]

The US healthcare system has been a cruel, twisted joke for years now. Watch Michael Moore’s documentary “Sicko” if you dare.

[Marilyn MonHoe 11,011]

25 minutes ago, Swallow said:

Reading the title I already knew it was inaccurate but I clicked anyway

There’s nothing inaccurate about the title if you read the article 

[Lion Heart 15,041]

Immigrants living and receiving medical care in Massachusetts learned of the Trump administration's policy change when they received letters from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services earlier this month warning them they will be deported if they don't leave the country in 33 days.

Way too harsh. I hope they can find a way to stay. 

[ALGAYDO 35,122]

27 minutes ago, Swallow said:

Reading the title I already knew it was inaccurate but I clicked anyway

How was it misleading? 

[whore 11,447]

49 minutes ago, Marilyn MonHoe said:

But it’s based on facts though 

I still don’t support it, but I feel like “immigrants” was a keyword

[AmericanxDream 2,049]

The clickbait.    

[ANVEEROY 65,228]

His supporters have family, mother-father-brother-sisters, somehow I feel for them. How they can be so ruthless and pathetic. I hope they will someday somehow find out what humanism is.