A suburban Chicago man was diagnosed with cancer while in prison. Now ICE is deporting him to Mexico.
By Elvia Malagon
Chicago Tribune
The family of Luis Ugalde-Pacheco worried that he would die in immigration custody. Now they fear he will die in a country he barely knows.
Ugalde-Pacheco, 28, who was recently diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, was deported to Mexico on Friday, according to his attorney. He’d called Chicago’s southwest suburbs home since he was about 7 years old when he came to the United States illegally with his father, said Lourdes Cristina Pacheco, his mother.
In March, he was placed into the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which began deportation proceedings. That was after he completed a two-year prison sentence for felony convictions of intimidation and aggravated battery for threatening and pushing a woman.
It was at the end of that prison stint that he was diagnosed with cancer, according to medical records provided by his attorney. Since then, his advocates have fought for him to receive medical treatment for his lymphoma, which they say ICE did not provide.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-ice-detainee-cancer-deportation-20190419-story.htmlI read this and said who cares? As if I am supposed to feel sorry for this convicted fellon? The bleeding heart liberal media does. There are probably 100's of thousands or more American citizens that obey the laws. Who work but still can't afford the Cancer treatment.