Posted on 11/02/2007 7:57:46 AM PDT by SmithL
Francisco Castaneda says he spent more than 10 months in immigration jails in Southern California pleading for medical help as lesions on his penis grew larger and more painful, but the government's only response was to free him before it had to pay for a scheduled biopsy.
The 35-year-old Salvadoran native, who entered the United States illegally with his mother when he was 10, now says he has terminal cancer that would have been prevented by proper treatment. His cancer was diagnosed immediately after his release from federal custody in February, and his penis was amputated before he began chemotherapy.
Immigration officials are still seeking to deport him, but Castaneda's lawyers say he will probably die before his case is resolved.
On Wednesday, Castaneda filed suit accusing state and federal officials of negligent medical care.
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Use a catapult if necessary
UNMITIGATED. GALL. Poor guy, but whose fault is all this? What kind of care would he have been provided with in is home hell hole? He is suing to collect assets for his estate courtesy of taxpayers, for his illegal immigrant parent.
Castaneda, who left El Salvador with his mother during a civil war, was living in the Los Angeles area when he was convicted of possessing methamphetamine in 2005 and spent eight months in county and state custody, his lawyers said. His immigration case includes a claim of political asylum. He says he would be persecuted and tortured if deported because of his former affiliation with a Los Angeles Salvadoran gang.
I feel sorry that he is going to die but I don't feel responsible for his treatment. I also wonder about this political asylum claim. If deported he faces persecution from being part of a Los Angeles Salvadoran gang...MS13 maybe? I can't see why he should stay here where the gang is. Send him home to die. Next we will be stuck with burying him.
What happened?
The loser strategists and illegal lovers came up with a new plan to force us all to become unwilling slaves of the criminals?
Or is it a plan to piss Americans and legal aliens enough to take up arms?
Hard to figure out.
If our courts determine that membership in Mara Salvatrucha, that is, MS 13, is grounds for asylum, the rest of the male population of El Salvador would have an open door to immigrate here legally. Maybe the Constitution IS a suicide pact.
....Stopped reading or caring.
YEAH, LIKE THAT IS OUR FAULT.
Am I the only one that sees that there is a way to eliminate all these BS suits (as well as many other threats to our culture) by simply clarifying two things?:
1. The U.S. Constitution applies only to Citizens and legal residents.
This should be self-evident, and the mischief done by pretending it applies to the whole world, or to illegals, is demonstrably insane and self-destructive. The logic of this deserves a thread all to itself.
2. Citizenship applies only to children of citizens and resident legal aliens.
Legal alien non-citizens who leave the U.S. for 6 months or more, lose their legal resident rights. Allegiance is a vital component of "American citizenship". We can't continue to tolerate the scamming of our most precious rights.
The deaths by illegals is so high & yet they want to give them citizenship. Some of the MANY gangs are linked to terrorists. They rape, murder, commit sex crimes on children & kill people each day drunken driving etc.. We need these kind of people? I don't think so & I do not understand why on earth we can not deport them. Build the fence & shoot anyone who dares to try to get over it.
Sorry for the rant but when is this madness going to stop?
His mother's. She brought him into this mean nasty country through no fault of his own when he was only 10 years old. People like her make the DREAM Act a must.
/sarc
This, I think, has made a mockery out of our laws, specially the immingration laws.
"Political asylum" can never, under any circumstances, be construed as a "benefit" for criminals as a means to escape justice in their own countries for criminal acts under their laws.
Think about it; if our laws (and protections) should apply to criminals of all countries, why shouldn't French laws, or Ugandan laws or Iranian "law"?
This guy needs a bigtime lawyer like THE SILK PONY!!!!!! Ride on in there John. Help this poor victim, trapped in our cruel and unusual system. This now memberless victim needs a great mouthpiece like you oh consumer of Breck products by the gallon.
From your keyboard to God’s ears....
I should be ashamed of myself for typing this but...
I guess he won’t be producing any anchor babies.
ping
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