Girl who seeks medical treatment in U.S. awaits decision on entry

Girl who seeks medical treatment in U.S. awaits decision on entry
By RICK MONTGOMERY
The Kansas City Star



Marlayna

The world was different seven years ago, when Michael Bonderer left Kansas City to erect houses and clinics for the poor in El Salvador.

The 9/11 terrorists hadn’t yet struck. Illegal immigration wasn’t the boiling issue it is now. And maybe, Bonderer contends, a Salvadoran teen wouldn’t have so much trouble getting emergency care in the United States to fix a broken back.

But today a wary U.S. immigration system is keeping treatment out of reach for a girl the humanitarian homebuilder helped raise.

“Here’s the irony,” said Bonderer, voice quickening, temper showing. “I spend seven years down there putting on a pretty good face for the U.S. And now we’ve got a little girl with a busted back who can’t come here for surgery that’s privately funded?

“I’m a little crusty, I realize that. … But this is why people in other countries don’t like us. A little girl with a broken back!”

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All they are asking is that she be allowed to come here for treatment - at no expense to US taxpayers.

It should be a right of all people. I am commenting on the fact that the whole entire United States is completely fucked up when it comes to accessing medical treatments in general... Citizens die withing the fucked up HMO crappola that is put out.. and people from other countries that have the possibility of accessing the treatments that they couldn't get in their own country, are denied because of bull shit Homeland Security protocols.. Its all fucked up.. What the fuck do they think a girl with a broken back is going to do to attack the US of fucking b.s. A.

It's so sad. Here you have a situation where medical professionals have agreed to donate their services and they still can't get the girl across the border.

Stories like this make me ashamed to be an American.