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Hunger strikers seek transplants for undocumented immigrants
suntimes.com ^ | August 5, 2013 | MITCH DUDEK

Posted on 08/05/2013 7:03:53 AM PDT by moonshinner_09

Demanding access to organ transplant procedures for undocumented immigrants, a group of hunger strikers set up camp outside Northwestern Memorial Hospital on Sunday.

They said they would stay until hopsital CEO Dean Harrison agreed to a meeting.

The group of about 40 picketers included 14 people who were in the sixth day of a hunger strike.

“We’re asking for help,” said Blanca Gomez, 23, who needs a kidney transplant. “I go to dialysis three times a week. I’m not going off the hunger strike until I get on the transplant list.”

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: aliens; healthcare; il; immigration
Who is paying for dialysis @ three times a week ? This is a lot money for that service.How about dialysis demand payment for services rendered ?
1 posted on 08/05/2013 7:03:53 AM PDT by moonshinner_09
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To: moonshinner_09

““We’re asking for help,” said Blanca Gomez, 23, who needs a kidney transplant. “I go to dialysis three times a week. I’m not going off the hunger strike until I get on the transplant list.”

Good. Let her starve and the taxpayers will save a bundle on dialysis.


2 posted on 08/05/2013 7:07:26 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: moonshinner_09

So does this mean they are not using their food stamp credit cards?


3 posted on 08/05/2013 7:07:55 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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In your face America! We're here, now take care of us!

Hunger strikes must not work south of the border.

4 posted on 08/05/2013 7:08:16 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Senator Foghorn says, You should never resist being raped, robbed, beat down or murdered.)
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To: moonshinner_09

Well, this sounds like a problem that will solve itself if we let them be.


5 posted on 08/05/2013 7:09:53 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (Attitude is the problem, race is the excuse.)
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Demanding access to organ transplant procedures for undocumented immigrants, a group of hunger strikers... soon to be organ donors...
6 posted on 08/05/2013 7:11:48 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ("To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"- Voltaire)
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To: moonshinner_09

how about asking your OWN COUNTRY to pay for it?

Why are we not SENDING A BILL to the home country of every illegal alien, for medical services


7 posted on 08/05/2013 7:12:38 AM PDT by Mr. K (Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
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To: moonshinner_09

Get ready for a rise in your blood pressure.

This article reminded me of another I read several years ago:

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/oct/29/local/me-dialysis29


8 posted on 08/05/2013 7:12:50 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Play the 'Knockout Game' with someone owning a 9mm and you get what you deserve)
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To: freeangel

Do the taxpayer citizens of this country a favor and stay on that hunger strike; or alternatively, go back to the craphole you crawled out of.

I don’t care about illegal you or any of your anchor spawn; not any more than I care about any criminal who is attempting to take money from me and my family.


9 posted on 08/05/2013 7:15:02 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: moonshinner_09

Camp of the Saints lives.


10 posted on 08/05/2013 7:15:41 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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The group of about 40 picketers

They used to call them pickers. That's progress!

11 posted on 08/05/2013 7:17:36 AM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great -- until it happens to YOU..)
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To: moonshinner_09

So they think we should allow Americans to die while a precious organ is given to a citizen of another country? I don’t think so. Let them get on the transplant list in their own country.


12 posted on 08/05/2013 7:35:50 AM PDT by McGavin999
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“Demanding access to organ transplant procedures for MEXICAN CITIZENS, a group of hunger strikers set up camp outside Northwestern Memorial Hospital on Sunday.

“The group said 14 MEXICAN CITIZENS who live in the Chicago area need either a liver or kidney transplant, but they can’t afford care because they are denied federal health care because they’re not AMERICAN CITIZENS.”


13 posted on 08/05/2013 8:04:21 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Be Brave! Fear is just the opposite of Nar!)
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Now we owe these pukes not only the shirts off our backs, but the very skin and bones as well????

Where the heck does this entitlement mentality come from? How can a criminal from a foreign country DEMAND that anyone supply him with anything? How does a non-citizen even have any but the most rudimentary legal standing in our courts?


14 posted on 08/05/2013 8:48:30 AM PDT by IronJack (=)
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