[squidly]

I’ve never known anyone who has had penis cancer. Amputation, it says. Yikes.

[padre35]

Eventually, the term “tough shit” will come into common usage, making into America is not and never has been a gold plated health and welfare plan.

To put it another way, if he was back in El Salvador, he would have died at home, there would be no lawsuit.

[Lancey Howard]

Sheesh. What a way to go.
Me, I’d rather go like Nelson Rockefeller.

[ConservativeMind]

Hmm. Here illegally and did illegal drugs. Probably had other illegal things there, too.

Penis cancer? Life’s a b-tch and then you die. It’s just that some are involved in pretty illegal things as well.

Sometimes life deals it’s own poetic justice.

[Ronin]

I tried very hard to give a rodent’s rectum about this for about five seconds and failed utterly.

[Red6]

The question I have is who’s going to pay for the treatment?

In fact, who’s paying for his damn lawyer sueing?

[Global2010]

It is not sue a ble.

Why couldn’t he seek treatment once released?

I am sure a whole lot of convicts go without healthcare in the slammer.

Heck civil citizens go without proper care depending on where and what is available and their ablility to find resources in time.

[umgud]

Sounds like the penile system failed him.........

[dalereed]

At least when they deport his carcass he won’t be coming back across the border the next day.

[afortiori]

eHarmony called, they found a match for you...

[Global2010]

FYI
MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Cancer - penis
Address:http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001276.htm Changed:10:38 AM on Tuesday, January 22, 2008

[DoughtyOne]

I don’t like the idea of being put in the position of having to give this guy medical care, but if he was diagnosed with a problem, he should have been taken care of.

Folks, I don’t like it eather, but we do need to provide humanitarian treatment of prisoners, even if illegal immigrants.

Now, when the problem was diagnosed, he should have been given special dispensation, released back to El Salvador so that he could seek treatment down there.

He didn’t belong here. We shouldn’t foot the bill.

[nralife]

“Castaneda left his native El Salvador with his mother during a civil war and entered the United States illegally when he was 10.”

It WAS pretty rough down there 25 years ago. IIRC, even some nuns were raped and murdered.

[montag813]

A doctor finally ordered a biopsy in late January 2007 and said Castaneda probably had cancer, but Immigration and Customs Enforcement released him 11 days later rather than having him treated, the suit said. He underwent the biopsy and amputation at a Los Angeles County hospital.

Ok, so he WAS treated after all, making the entire story a lie. Sue Los Angeles County if you want.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Prayers for a misguided soul.