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what am I supposed to think about a country that behaves like this? [1]
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Date: 2025-04-01
there are literally no words to describe my ongoing disgust of the gop and trump:
Kidney donor detained by ICE before life-saving transplant can take place
BERWYN, Ill. (WGN) — Activists, community members and elected officials are calling on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to release a detainee who was preparing to make an organ donation to save his brother’s life.
A vigil was held Monday evening for José Gregorio, a 43-year-old from Venezuela, who has been held in an immigration detention center for nearly a month.
Gregorio was preparing to donate a kidney to his brother, José Alfredo Pacheco, 37, who has end-stage renal disease. Pacheco said his brother is his lifeline to surviving and the only family member he has here to help him.
“This is literally a matter of life and death,” attorney Peter Meinecke with The Resurrection Project told Nexstar’s WGN.
According to Meinecke, Pacheco came to the United States in 2022 and applied for asylum, an application that is still pending.
In 2023, he was given the news that his kidney had stopped functioning. He currently receives dialysis treatment three days a week, four hours at a time to stay alive.
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