Thread: Deported from Chicago Hospital, Undocumented Quadriplegic Dies in Mexico

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Published at 6:25 pm, January 2, 2012

An undocumented immigrant who was paralyzed in a construction accident and deported in 2010 against his will to Mexico because he could not pay his Illinois hospital bill died over the weekend, activists confirmed to Efe on Monday.

Quelino Ojeda Jimenez, 24, died at 2:00 a.m. Sunday at a hospital in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, said Jesus Vargas, an immigrants’ rights activist in Chicago.

On Sunday, in Chicago a Mass was celebrated for the immigrant at Our Lady of the Americas Episcopal Church in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood.

“We ask for the eternal rest of Quelino Ojeda Jimenez,” said Vargas at the religious service, which was attended by activists and Mexican Consul Joaquin Pastrana.

On Monday, several representatives of pro-immigrant groups sought to communicate with Ojeda’s relatives in Oaxaca to inform them of the funeral service and to offer to help the family from Chicago.

Ojeda was injured in August 2010 when he fell from the roof of a home.

He was taken to the emergency room at Advocate Christ Medical Center in suburban Oak Lawn, Illinois, where he received $650,000 worth of care over four months.

When he could not pay for his medical expenses, the hospital began procedures to transfer the patient to Mexico.

According to the Mexican consulate in Chicago, Ojeda said he did not want to return to Mexico, while his mother and other relatives in Oaxaca said they preferred that he recover in Oak Lawn because the local hospital in far southern Mexico was not able to treat him.

However, on Dec. 22, 2010, Advocate Christ decided to transfer him to Mexico, ignoring the wishes of their patient and his family and without advising the consulate.

“All his rights were trampled upon,” said Carlos Arango, a member of the United Front for Immigrants in Chicago, adding that the governments of the United States and Mexico should establish humanitarian rules to deal with similar cases in the future.

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Undocumented worker who became quadriplegic is moved to Mexico against his will
Hospital's decision to send quadriplegic man back to Mexico angers those in Chicago who cared for him

By Judith Graham, Becky Schlikerman and Abel Uribe, Tribune reporters

7:05 p.m. EST, February 6, 2011

For almost four months, doctors and nurses at Advocate Christ Medical Center cared for the young Mexican laborer who had fallen from a roof and lost the ability to speak, breathe or move most parts of his body.

But Quelino Ojeda Jimenez was in the U.S. illegally, and just before Christmas he was taken from the Oak Lawn hospital, loaded on an air ambulance and flown to Oaxaca, capital of the Mexican state where he was born.

His abrupt departure, which Ojeda says was undertaken without his consent, outraged a group of Mexicans living in Chicago who had rallied to his aid, tending to him in the hospital and encouraging him not to give up.

http://www.alipac.us/threads/216553-...c+moved+Mexico

Watch for some traitorous Chicago Hispanic bishop to move for his sainthood. Barf.

So what did he die from?

Shouldn't have been on a damn American roof in the first place if he's an illegal alien!
I cry tears for the $650,000 worth of care over four months. All the rest is what comes around.
My compassion is gone. For all illegals. My concern is the pain, suffering, needs, and fate of Americans.

This is very tragic as are all accidents that leave patients paralyzed. However, when hospitals have done all they can do by medical standards, they release the patients to the families or a caretaker of the patient's choice. In this instance, the man is illegal, has no family here to release him to, it appears the "outraged Mexicans" weren't willing to take him home to Mexico, so what else was the hospital expected to do? Provide him with care and services they don't even provide to Americans?


The only story here is yet another illegal alien took a another construction job from an American, got injured, cost another hospital $650,000 that would have otherwise been spent on caring for sick Americans, and was returned home to his family first class in an air ambulance, when he was ready to be released from the hospital.

[QUOTE=stevetheroofer;1246524]So what did he die from?[/QUOTE

I dont know what he died from. His last words were "Freakin Gringos."

Originally Posted by pattyk

Originally Posted by stevetheroofer

So what did he die from?

I dont know what he died from. His last words were "Freakin Gringos."

A lot of them are swan divin' for the insurance money, they sue the home owner and the employer and don't care if they get deported!

I've fallen off 3 times in 27yrs. 2 times I could've got messed up pretty good except my ass is as hard as my head!

You fell three times? What do you do, land on your feet like a damn cat?

Originally Posted by stevetheroofer

So what did he die from?

He died of a broken heart roofer. Because you wouldnt return his calls. Dumbass.