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Undocumented immigrants fight for lifesaving liver transplants
Chicago Tribune ^ | June 11, 2012 | Jeff Danna

Posted on 06/11/2012 8:46:29 PM PDT by moonshinner_09

Brothers Elfego and Lorenzo Arroyo each suffers from a deadly liver disease. But despite the urgency of their situation, the Chicago residents have struggled to receive organ transplants.

The Arroyo brothers are undocumented immigrants and lack insurance, friends and relatives say. Like others in their situation, they have been denied care that could increase their chances of survival due to their residency status.

"We know there are thousands of Latinos and (non-)Latinos with no documents who are facing the same situation," Rev. Jose Landaverde said Monday during a news conference at Our Lady of Guadalupe Angelican Catholic Mission in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: aliens; healthcare; illegal; immigration; transplant
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To: pbmaltzman

I can’t understand the folks that want to live forever, getting Frankensteined and paying a fortune to try to grab a few more years. I’m weary of this world already, and I’m only 33. When my organs start failing, I think I will thank God and try to cross a few things off the bucket list before I get called home.


21 posted on 06/11/2012 10:01:18 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: moonshinner_09

Trying to be Christian,,,but I feel as if my politicians (which I want jailed) have unleased a poor brown bomb on us and our country will never be the same again.


22 posted on 06/11/2012 10:06:01 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: samadams2000

Sorry...I meant (whom I want jailed).


23 posted on 06/11/2012 10:10:19 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: cableguymn

You didn’t, I will.


24 posted on 06/11/2012 10:26:09 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: samadams2000
I think that is the general plan.

Flood a country with poor non-citizens who have no allegiance to its flag, its constitution, or its founding documents, no cultural or historical bonds, no respect for it laws or historical foundations, who REFUSE to assimilate, have no healthy distrust of an overreaching federal government, and continually tend to rely on that same government to take care of them, AND then give those same non-citizens voting rights...

That non-citizen bloc and whoever represents them would become a major political power in a foreign country. And that seems to be what is happening now.

For the democrats it is all about votes and power. Like the thousands of despots and dictators before them throughout mankind's history, they have to RULE over people, and it doesn't matter WHO those people may be. You can't RULE a free, armed citizenry, who are culturally tied to the land, and don't need or want whatever trinkets you can give them, while robbing them blind.

Therefore, replace them with someone you can rule.

25 posted on 06/11/2012 10:39:51 PM PDT by abishai
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To: moonshinner_09

If they are mestizo the likelihood of finding a donor match for most organs is very poor due to the vast number of indigenous ethnic groups in Mexico and Central America. They can get a partial liver donation from a family member, though.


26 posted on 06/11/2012 10:54:18 PM PDT by Havisham
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To: moonshinner_09

Sorry guys. Americans first. Really, I’m sorry....

Good Luck...


27 posted on 06/11/2012 11:41:58 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Boogieman
The headline brought the image to my mind of two Mexicans knife-fighting in an arena to win a new liver.

ROFLMAO! Yeah, I can see that too. Something else for the gangs to fight about!

28 posted on 06/12/2012 1:19:55 AM PDT by pbmaltzman
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To: Boogieman
The headline brought the image to my mind of two Mexicans knife-fighting in an arena to win a new liver.

ROFLMAO! Yeah, I can see that too. Something else for the gangs to fight about!

29 posted on 06/12/2012 1:20:08 AM PDT by pbmaltzman
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To: Boogieman
The headline brought the image to my mind of two Mexicans knife-fighting in an arena to win a new liver.

ROFLMAO! Yeah, I can see that too. Something else for the gangs to fight about!

30 posted on 06/12/2012 1:20:28 AM PDT by pbmaltzman
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To: Boogieman
The headline brought the image to my mind of two Mexicans knife-fighting in an arena to win a new liver.

ROFLMAO! Yeah, I can see that too. Something else for the gangs to fight about!

31 posted on 06/12/2012 1:20:31 AM PDT by pbmaltzman
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To: moonshinner_09

they’re here illegally? deport them.


32 posted on 06/12/2012 1:20:31 AM PDT by RC one (this space intentionally left blank)
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To: 98ZJ USMC
Hey, no problem. Hop back over the border, third Maytag box on the left. Pedro’s All Night Bar, Grill and Transplant Shop.

Ask for the clean surgical instruments. A few pesos more, but worth it. If he’s out of livers, I recommend the spleen.

Good one! LMAO!

33 posted on 06/12/2012 1:23:54 AM PDT by pbmaltzman
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To: 98ZJ USMC
Hey, no problem. Hop back over the border, third Maytag box on the left. Pedro’s All Night Bar, Grill and Transplant Shop.

Ask for the clean surgical instruments. A few pesos more, but worth it. If he’s out of livers, I recommend the spleen.

Good one! LMAO!

34 posted on 06/12/2012 1:24:09 AM PDT by pbmaltzman
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To: samadams2000

“...have unleased a poor brown bomb on us and our country will never be the same again.”


It’s the same with “brown” cockroaches. Don’t do anything about them and pretty soon they have swarmed the country. Worse yet, we (our politicians) simply look the other way and don’t do anything about it.

The infestation continues to grow and soon real Americans will be eaten alive by them.


35 posted on 06/12/2012 4:30:20 AM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: Cheerio

It is a Stalinist LIE to call these illegal immigrants “undocumented”.

They hold “papers” that are fraudulent. Some are genuine driver’s licenses sold to them by corrupt workers within the Department of Public Safety. One woman who was murdered after she was caught selling some to Islamists even sold SEVERAL different identities to one man.

They commit identity theft and the public is supposed to be compassionate.


36 posted on 06/12/2012 7:29:50 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The media ignored the 40th anniversary of Bill Ayers' Pentagon bombing but not Watergate. Ask Why.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Now they are stealing livers that by rights belong to Americans.


37 posted on 07/06/2012 9:22:20 PM PDT by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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To: Jeff Chandler

There’s a line down home ~ they probably ought to get on it quickly


38 posted on 06/05/2013 4:24:09 PM PDT by muawiyah (Git yer Red Arm Bands here - $29.95 - NOT SOLD IN STORES - TAX FREE)
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