ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court

[cursuve]

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

The New Colossus, Emma Lazarus, 1883

[wolfi1]

if this boy misses his treatments wouldn't that also mean that the 8th amendment is being violated?

[burnt-resistor]

The amendments mean nothing when there is abject, depraved lawlessness. The regime decides who have "rights" and who doesn't like pardoning bank fraudsters and violent insurrectionists while abusing poor people.

[amy214]

>The mother brought her two children to the immigration court on May 29 expecting to continue to make a case for asylum after fleeing Honduras because of threats of violence.

If someone threatens me with violence, can I go live in any country I want and have my expensive disease treated?

[actionfromafar]

According to the administration, just another terrorist rounded up.

[jxjnskkzxxhx]

> He even had leukaemia? Why didn’t they give him and his extended family green cards right there and then?

Don't do this... No one here suggested that having leukaemia should be enough to qualify for a green card.

[giardini]

A boy with leukemia very likely won't live to adulthood and will be a burden on society. We want and need the healthiest, the brightest, the strongest for both their generation's sake and that of succeeding ones.

[southernplaces7]

I'm going guess you're being sarcastic, but just in case anyone else here takes this nugget seriously, leukemia is one of the cancers out there that has seen the most spectacular improvements in treatment across the last few decades. No, most kids that get it don't die young. It's all the opposite.

[soganess]

FINALLY, someone I can agree with. With the birthright citizenship now in play, I say we should expatriate everyone in tech as well! Now that code can be written by LLMs, tech workers will just be drain on the economy.

If one don't have the heart to see the basic decency of not imprisoning a terminally ill child... I'm not sure there is anything they couldn't be convinced to do.