Murdering the Sick as a Side Benefit of Ethnic Cleansing
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Last week, I did a grave post on Karl Bendetsen, who I called a proto-Stephen Miller for being a Jewish American who denied his heritage and instead committed himself to the ethnic cleansing of Japanese Americans from the west coast during World War II. One thing that Bendesten did was ensure that any Japanese American in the hospital be eliminated at the same time as everyone else. So he forced hospitals to unhook patients from the machines keeping them alive. Naturally, they died.
I’ve been thinking of this kind of thing with Miller’s present ethnic cleansing campaign. Here’s a great example of how the ICE fascist shock troops kill without pulling the trigger, but kill just the same.
A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent kidney transplant recipient who may not have access to his medication once he’s flown to Texas, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.
Hicks, DFL-Rochester, said she drove Thursday night to the Whipple Federal Building, the base of operations for the federal immigration crackdown, to give the man, Javier Abreu, his medication, but federal authorities told his attorney Friday morning that he needed a doctor’s note to keep it.
Hicks said she learned that Abreu received his medication Thursday night. But, he’s scheduled to be flown to Texas at 1 p.m. She said she was able to get a letter from his Mayo Clinic doctor and has sent it to his attorney, but she has not received confirmation that federal officials have received it. She said she worries Abreu could die without his transplant medication.
Javier’s wife, Carolina Rosario De Abreu, told MPR News shortly before 1pm that he was still scheduled to take off at 1pm as far as she knew.
“It feels like it doesn’t matter what we’re trying to do,” an exasperated Hicks said of the response from federal authorities. “These are simple human rights, things that most Minnesotans believe should happen — access to counsel, access to life saving medication — and yet it’s being denied.”
This is murder. Everyone involved should be charged with murder. Starting with Trump and Miller and Noem, but also extending down to every ICE agent who knew about this and did nothing.