Can the Trump administration sink any lower than threatening to deport sick kids?

[lunamagica]

I'm sick over this...Oh, but her emails!

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Can the Trump administration sink any lower than threatening to deport sick kids?




Step by malicious step, the Trump administration is turning the American immigration system into an apparatus of appalling, intentional cruelty.

The latest case in point is a relatively small program known as “medical deferred action,” in which immigrants without legal status who are suffering from serious medical conditions are granted a reprieve from deportation so that they can have access to much-needed medical treatment in the United States.

Trump halted the program this month, threatening to deport these patients, including children with leukemia, muscular dystrophy, or cystic fibrosis. The program’s termination means suspending or interrupting medical care, which in some instances is virtually a death sentence.


Consider the case of Marie and her 13-year-old son. They were visiting Boston in 2013 when the boy fell ill. He was diagnosed with sickle cell anemia, a genetic condition for which he’s been treated at Boston Medical Center. She filed for medical deferred action almost immediately and they were approved in 2017. The status, valid for two years, meant she could get a work permit and he would be granted MassHealth and afford access to life-saving care. She is required to bring him into BMC for monitoring every two months; otherwise acute problems might arise that can result in brain damage or kidney failure, she said. Last week, Marie got a denial letter from US Citizenship and Immigration Services after filing for a renewal. They were instructed to leave within 33 days or else risk deportation.


“I can’t go back to Haiti,” Marie said in an interview after a press conference Monday organized by local immigration advocates to denounce the program’s cancellation. “I won’t find this medical care for him there.”

‘I feel like I’m signing my son’s death warrant.’ Children at Boston hospitals face deportation
Marie, 35, of Haiti, spoke about seeking treatment in the United States for her 13-year-old sick son during the news conference.
Marie, 35, of Haiti, spoke about seeking treatment in the United States for her 13-year-old sick son during the news conference.(Elise Amendola/AP)

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2019/08/27/eimmigrationchanges/QGz28BqWIwll0pxgPYVdhN/story.html

[mr_lebowski]

1. If this blows up to the point he has to comment, I can already tell you his tweet content ...

"My researchers told me to put an end to an Obama program inviting parents to bring their sick kids from all over the world, forcing US taxpayers to pay for their care. American kids already dying because of Obamacare! They need to fix healthcare in their own countries! Not Fair!"

And the 'pro-life' people will LOVE HIM for it.

[RockRaven]

2. Of course. Actually *doing* it is somewhat worse than threatening. That's a done deal, of course.

Because these people (Trumpists) would literally kill immigrant children (well, non-Scandanavian anyway -- and no knock on Scandanavians, it is just Trumpists' weirdo race-fetish with Norwegians or Swedes or whatever) with their bare hands if that was the only way to prevent their immigration.

Deporting a terminally-ill non-white kid in a manner which assures certain death is absolutely nothing to these ghouls. They won't even blink. It is like breathing to them.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. He did to his own I'll great nephew (or at least used it as leverage). So no

surprised that he'd do it to strangers he's referred to as an infestation.

[Skittles]

4. Trump will ALWAYS find a way to sink lower

*ALWAYS*

[Totally Tunsie]

5. It's becoming more apparent by the day that there is no "bottom" to this administration.

Just when you think they're there, *!*BOOM*!*, the floor drops again. Who can even predict what hell Chump and his minions will scheme up next?

[smirkymonkey]

14. I am absolutely convinced that if he is allowed to continue at the rate he is going at, we

will be exactly where Nazi Germany was at the end. Where people are rounded up in their homes and forced into camps or shot in the streets. And not just immigrants or minorities, but anyone who disagrees with Trump and his administration, including journalists, socialists, liberals, even just run of the mill democrats.

I honestly believe that the man is every bit as evil as Hitler. He might as well be murdering these children with his own bare hands. I actually think he gets some kind of sadistic joy out of depriving these innocent kids from the life-saving care that they need.

[Cha]

6. Thanks for bringing attention

to this, Lunamagica!

We're all in this horrible nightmare only we're living it.. I only hope we can get a Democrat elected and start to heal after next year.

[lame54]

7. Ask me tomorrow

[BigmanPigman]

8. As soon as I read your OP I literally "knocked wood".

You know as soon as you ask a question like that regarding him, he'll do something even worse within a week. It's a jinx.

[lunamagica]

10. What can be worse than sending terminally ill children to their deaths?

I can't believe the lack of outrage this news is getting. This is beyond barbaric!

[BigmanPigman]

12. He can easily top that.

If he isn't reelected I fully expect him to profit illegally and in a huge amount then destroy the country and sell it to the highest bidder between election day and the inauguration of the new POTUS. He is not just unpatriotic, be doesn't like America. He will destroy us in ways we can't even imagine yet. I don't mean just telling his cult followers to shoot us libruls but will destroy our systems and structures, the foundations of our govt. He is so filled with hate, spite and revenge I put nothing past him. He is still pissed at Obama for making a joke at the Correspond. Dinner and that was in 2011 I believe.

[lunamagica]

9. K&R for visibility

[Wounded Bear]

11. I believe the old song goes, "You ain't seen nothing yet!"

They're still digging. No bottom in sight.

[lunatica]

13. A more pertinent question would be

Can the Trump administration ever find a reason not to sink lower?

[sarisataka]

15. Reply from DJT

"Hold my beer"

[struggle4progress]

16. Yes! It's a big sucking bottomless black hole!