Anti-immigration fanatic Michelle Malkin loves to accuse anyone opposing anti-immigration laws of "endangering American lives". Whenever anyone says anything pro-immigration, Malkin talks about 9/11 in order to intimidate anyone into silence. Nevermind that Timothy McVeigh was NOT a native of Oklahoma. In fact, he was from Buffallo, NY. By Malkin's logic, anyone who doesn't want to restrict immigration from New York to Oklahoma is spitting on the graves of the victims of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
Enough of terrorism, anti-immigration laws endanger lives. A man awaiting a kidney transplant isn't getting one anytime soon. Why? Because the man with the perfectly matching kidney is living in the Phillipines, and the US immigration officials isn't giving that Filipino man a visa to come to Hawaii to donate the kidney
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Feb/13/ln/ln06a.html
For six years, Francisco Guerrero has had his blood cleansed by a machine for several hours three times a week at St. Francis Medical Center in Honolulu because his kidneys have failed.
In the Philippines, his son, Glenn, studies architecture and waits with a life-saving kidney that is considered a near-perfect match for his father. But the U.S. government won't grant the 28-year-old a temporary visa because he can't prove he'll return to the Philippines.
The Guerreros' plight is not uncommon at St. Francis, the only organ transplant center in the Central Pacific. There are at least 15 Filipino patients there who face the same bureaucratic roadblocks to getting a visa for an organ donor, and all have been rejected. They have all but given up hope of bringing their relatives to the United States for the life-saving surgery. No patients are known to have died while trying to cut the red tape after finding a donor match. But hospital officials said many Filipinos have a rare blood type and die while waiting for a kidney because they never find a match.
Of course, Michelle Malkin, Pat Buchanan, Joseph Farrah, and other anti-immigration fanatics have ZERO COMPASSION for those awaiting donated organs. They hope no one would ever read the mentioned Honolulu Advertiser article! They want you to think that any leniency on immigration means another 9/11, nevermind the people dying due to anti-immigration restricrions mentioned above.
