A really great story, well written and informative. It’s rare that I actually read an article from start to finish, but this one actually caught my interest. Well written and informitive this article depicts the struggles that our people must deal with on a daily basis. Read it, maybe you’ll learn something.. I did.
From: The Metro Times Detroit:
“If a foreigner who is illegally in the United States breaks their leg and seeks medical care, should the hospital treat them?”
Olga Gonzalez says she clearly remembers the debate that question generated in a social studies class during her junior year at University Liggett School. She listened in horror as one of her classmates gave his opinion.
“Let them die,” he said. “They don’t deserve to be here.”
Wary of making the issue too personal because of the problems she could face, Gonzalez, who is Mexican, spoke up anyway. She had family who could be in that situation, she told the other students at the exclusive Grosse Pointe Woods school she attended on scholarship. Would they want them to die?
She didn’t change anyone’s opinion.
“What if you were in Europe skiing and you broke your leg and the hospital wouldn’t treat you because you weren’t European?” she asked the class.
That made the class at least pause. They could see the humanity missing from their opinions. Gonzalez breathed more easily.
Caught in the crossfire (Metro Times Detroit)
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