Thread: {SOB} Illegal has Breast Cancer. Family to be deported

Fighting disease and deportation
Relatives hope for mercy from ICE as a mother battles a cancer that’s merciless
By SUSAN CARROLL
Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle

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When Edy Velasquez came home after working the late shift at his second job, his wife was asleep on the floral-patterned living room couch, propped up on three pillows.

Quietly, he started the ritual he’d performed for the past three weeks. He attached a line of antibiotics to the tube that ran into her chest, careful not to awaken her. Then he sank into an overstuffed armchair by her head, and for the next hour and a half he watched his high school sweetheart breathe in and out.

Edy Velasquez, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala, is counting the days, the hours, he has left in Houston with his wife, Aura Velasquez, and his U.S.-born son. In February, Aura, 48, was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer. Less than three weeks later, a letter from U.S. immigration officials arrived in the mail. The letter said Edy and his 24-year-old stepdaughter, Jennifer Palencia Mayorga, had lost their appeal to stay in the United States.

They have until May 17 to leave the country. One more week.
“It hurts my heart,â€

My sympathies go out to American women with breast cancer that can't afford the care they need because they lost their jobs and insurance to illegals. They don't get free healthcare like the illegals either.

I hope the resolution if it includes empathy from ICE also includes them leaving at the end of therapy.

I understand these medical hardships personally. But I handled the problems of my family. If these folks can't handle their personal lives, Mexico needs to swoop in and save them by offering all the care necessary. If Mexico does not come to their assistance, it should shut up now and forever on illegal alien issues.

Edy locked himself in the bathroom and did a series of morbid calculations. With the $7 a day he could earn in the fields in Guatemala, they could not afford chemotherapy for his wife.

He has a $30,000 life insurance policy through work. If he killed himself, he reasoned, Aura and their son would be paid at least $800 a month. They might be able to keep the house




Ummmm........did the journalist who chose to play on the suicide angle in this ploy for sympathy inform the family that insurance companies don't pay off on suicides?

[b]“Imagine if they were to pick him up,â€

If they allow these 2 IA's to stay then all US non-violent Prisoners should be allowed to go home if they have a spouse or child with a life threatening illness.Fair is Fair otherwise these 2 must be deported.

They married in 1998 at a courthouse ceremony in Houston. A year later, Giancarlo was born.

Hmm, I'd like to know which judge married a pair of illegals os they could have an anchor baby and stay in the U.S.

I wonder how much the illegal family cost the American tax payers in all the social services, eduction, health care in all the time they were in our country illegally.

I don't feel sorry for them, I feel sorry for the legal citizens in America that don't have health care and/or can't go to hospitols that have closed due to an influx of free-loading illegals.

Originally Posted by USPatriot

If they allow these 2 IA's to stay then all US non-violent Prisoners should be allowed to go home if they have a spouse or child with a life threatening illness.Fair is Fair otherwise these 2 must be deported.

To the contrary.....they should be allowed to home if they have a child with speech impediments and minor learning disabilities such as difficulty in tying their shoes.

Those are the issues this particular anchor baby has and was enough to grant the mother asylum and, after all.....fair is fair.