Trump Administration Wants to Deport Gravely Ill Migrant Kids
quietly and unexpectedly informed families of
kids with cancer and other grave conditions that they face deportation
because it is ending the federal “medical deferred action” program.
The program has allowed undo ented immigrants to stay in the U.S. without threat of deportation for needed medical treatment that might not be offered in their home country.
“Can the Trump administration sink any lower than threatening to deport sick kids?”
It continued:
Step by malicious step, the Trump administration is
turning the 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 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, children with muscular dystrophy, children with cystic fibrosis.
The program`s termination means suspending or interrupting the children`s medical care, which
in some cases is virtually a death sentence.
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