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ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court

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Re: ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court

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if this boy misses his treatments wouldn't that also mean that the 8th amendment is being violated?

>The mother brought her two children to the immigration court on May 29 expecting to continue to make a case for asylum after fleeing Honduras because of threats of violence.

If someone threatens me with violence, can I go live in any country I want and have my expensive disease treated?

Re: ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court

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post #18

if this boy misses his treatments wouldn't that also mean that the 8th amendment is being violated?

>The mother brought her two children to the immigration court on May 29 expecting to continue to make a case for asylum after fleeing Honduras because of threats of violence. If someone threatens me with violence, can I go live in any country I want and have my expensive disease treated?

I think you should reasonably to be able to expect to seek peace and support in the country that created the unstable situation for you in the first place, yes.

At any rate the effect of these asylum seekers on the hospital system in the U.S. pales in comparison to the private equity vampires stripping it for parts while getting abject dummies like you to blame "the migrants."

Re: ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court

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A boy with leukemia very likely won't live to adulthood and will be a burden on society. We want and need the healthiest, the brightest, the strongest for both their generation's sake and that of succeeding ones.

I'm going guess you're being sarcastic, but just in case anyone else here takes this nugget seriously, leukemia is one of the cancers out there that has seen the most spectacular improvements in treatment across the last few decades. No, most kids that get it don't die young. It's all the opposite.

Not being sarcastic. And kids with leukemia die earlier than kids w/o: leukemia is not a "super power". Quit being silly.
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