On HIV Positive Illegal Aliens
Our refusal to do anything about our porous Southern border is only making the illegal aliens more brazen (if such a thing is even possible). Their most recent kvetch du jour is about how the ICE is denying health care to HIV positive “migrants” in the detention centers.
MEXICO CITY (AP) – Olga Arellano sobs as she recalls how her HIV-positive daughter spent two months succumbing to infections in a U.S. migrant detention center, complaining that she didn’t see a doctor or get the right medicine.
Fellow inmates also begged for help after Victoria Arellano started vomiting blood in their holding cell, where her lawyer said 105 detainees were crammed onto bunks and mattresses in a space designed for 40.
She died three days later, chained to a hospital bed.
I wonder if there’s any relation to the notorious Elvira Arellano.
All I can say is that Miss Arellano must have had a pretty advanced case of HIV. And I realize this is going to sound cruel, but it looks like she was just coming here to get “free” health care.
The death of the 23-year-old transgender Mexican immigrant is at the forefront of discussions at this week’s international AIDS conference in Mexico City. Rights activists say it shows the failure of immigration officials to deal humanely with HIV-positive inmates among the 30,000 migrants held in detention centers across the United States.
When all else fails, blame America! We are taxed ruthlessly enough as it is without having to pay for the health care of every single illegal alien from Latin America.
The family’s lawyer, Steven Archer, says Arellano never got proper medical attention after she was stopped for drunk driving and handed over to immigration officials in June 2007.
“They never gave her any of the proper medications for her AIDS diagnosis. They did give her a prescription for a urinary tract infection, but even then, they filled her prescription with the wrong strength, and they never diagnosed the meningitis, even though she had been complaining about headaches, sweats and generalized pain for weeks. That is what killed her in the end,” Archer said. “It was so advanced that it involved her brain, her liver, her lungs, her heart, and a couple of other organs. She died in terrible pain.”
As far as I’m concerned, anyone sneaking here illegally has the right only to be sent back where they came from. And it’s really pathetic that there are American lawyers defending these invaders. Furthermore, HIV is less contagious than meningitis. Who knows how many more people could have been infected if this Victoria was let out.
ICE spends nearly $100 million annually on medical services for its detainees, including dental, chronic and mental health care. A June 11 report on deaths in ICE custody by the Homeland Security Department’s internal watchdog found that ICE’s overall standards have equalled those of other detention agencies.
I wouldn’t be surprised if people were sneaking in here just get treatment at these detention centers.
Since ICE was formed in 2003, 71 people out of 1.5 million have died in the agency’s custody. Officials also note that such deaths have declined to 7 last year even as the detainee population grew. But the watchdog report recommended that the ICE do more to improve oversight and screening procedures and to fill clinical staff shortages at detention facilities.
That actually sounds pretty good. But then again Human Rights Watch won’t stop whining until every terrorist is set free, and America is turned into a welfare state.
August 5th, 2008 at 1:45 am
So why the heck did she come here, knowing that the state of health care for criminal aliens is so bad? And if she was so sick, what the heck was she doing driving drunk? Last I heard that’s just a step above physical child abuse, what with the way states have cracked down on drunk driving.
That’s just what the country needs. Not only are they exporting their child rapos and killers, but now they’re even exporting their souses, and screaming that we’re cruel if we don’t take care of them.
Earth to Latin America: take your own social misfits and solve their problems yourself. Fact is, this has become a war and any criminal alien not in a uniform should be caught, lined up against a wall and summarily executed. If your bleeding heart can’t stand the thought of doing that to the babies and children, then feel free to pay for their trip home and for all their support (food, clothing, housing, education, etc.) until they reach the age of majority.
August 5th, 2008 at 7:01 am
This woman sounds like she would have been a model citizen with her AIDS, meningitis, infections, and drunk driving.
The problem is holding this scum in detention centers instead of just busing them back to the Southern Border.
ICE alone spends 100 million on medical services or criminals who steal across he borders. I wonder how much Mexico spends for medical services on those who illegally enter their country?
August 5th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Life is tough—being illegal doesn’t appear to be a tough choice…….
August 5th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
hey, if you don’t like it then don’t come here illegally.
November 16th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
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July 29th, 2009 at 2:30 am
i wonder when are we going to have the cure for HIV/AIDS ? we are living on an age with very high technology but still we have not found a cure for this disease.
September 15th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
HIV AIDS is really a very scary disease. until now, there is no know cure or vaccine for it. the only we can prevent it is through safe sex.
October 10th, 2009 at 3:33 am
HIV/AIDS is still rampant today and there is no cure for it. we need to practive safe sex all the time because an ounce of prevention is still better than a pound of cure.