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Showing Original Post only (View all)Trump Is About to Let a Four-Year-Old Immigrant Girl Die [View all]
This is running on my local news at KTLA. They are going to have news conference sometime soon.Doctors for the child, who has a life-threatening medical condition, say that stopping her treatment could prove fatal within a matter of days.
Donald Trumps administration may have condemned a 4-year-old girl with a rare bowel condition to death by terminating her legal status as part of the presidents crackdown on immigration, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.
The young girl, who was identified by her initials S.G.V. by the Times, and her family were granted humanitarian permission to enter the U.S. legally from Mexico in 2023, so that she could receive treatment for short bowel syndrome, which prevents her from absorbing enough nutrients to remain healthy.
In a letter requested by the family, Dr. John Asenault, who treats S.G.V. every six weeks at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, said that any interruption in her daily nutrition regimen could prove fatal within a matter of days.
Arsenault said that patients such as S.G.V., who use an IV-administered nutrition system at home called Total Parenteral Nutrition, are typically not permitted to leave the country at all.
Much more at the link...
https://newrepublic.com/post/195741/donald-trump-deportation-kill-four-year-old
There is a go fund me drive to help them since the parents work visas were revoked and they have had to hire a lawyer to try to fight the deportation.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-sofias-lifesaving-care
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It sickens me. I drive by Children's Hospital all of the time and see helicopters flying in and out from the top of the
chowder66
May 2025
#4
Repukes don't care about their life unless its their own, or their Dear Leader's
sakabatou
May 2025
#5
The depth of his depravity and evilness, and that of his enablers, has no bounds
Grim Chieftain
May 2025
#11