El Salvador girl denied US visa to save sister's life - Telegraph
Reblogged from reagan-was-a-horrible-president
[Yarelis Bonilla, five, of Elizabeth in New Jersey, has lymphocytic leukaemia and her best hope is a bone-marrow transplant from a perfect match donor.
Her seven-year-old sister, Gisselle, would fit the bill but she lives in El Salvador and has twice been denied a visa by the US embassy.
Marian Habib, the lawyer representing the family of Yarelis, who was born in the US, said: “It is truly an emergency. This is a race against time.” She said the US embassy in El Salvador has to be convinced that the girl’s life is at risk and that her sister will return to her home country after the transplant.
The family of the girls insisted that the operation cannot be carried out in El Salvador as the country cannot provide the level of medical care required.
“A report from the paediatrics department at Newark Beth Israel Medical Centre described Yarelis’s condition as “life-threatening”….
“ There is often a fear, in cases like this, that the recipient of the visa will not return home,” said Espinal.]this is beyond belief. how? like what is wrong with these people? you rather a little girl die than risk ONE more possible illegal immigrant? i give up. i cant.
This is outrageous. We’ll let the Shah of Iran, who had over 20,000 people killed, seek refuge in the United States and get treatment for cancer but not a little girl for the purposes of donating bone marrow to her sister, a U.S. citizen? These immigration laws have to go.
Contact your Senators. They can put pressure on the State Department to issue humanitarian parole.
