Soldier_of_God,
Just to clarify a few of the facts related to organ donations and non citizens:
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/living/health/5228884.htm
"Jesica Santillan's mother apparently smuggled her into the United States three years ago, hoping the sick teen would have a better chance of getting a new heart and lungs here than she would in Mexico."
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"On one hand, Crippin said, doctors argue that 'transplantation is about saving lives, and a life's a life.'
But other doctors argue that with too few donated organs to go around -- an estimated 17 people on the waiting list die every day -- U.S. citizens shouldn't be the ones left waiting. The debate was highlighted in the 1980s when several wealthy foreign nationals came to the United States for expensive transplant operations, including the wife of a senior adviser to the king of Saudi Arabia.
In response, several major medical organizations, including the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, endorsed resolutions calling for U.S. citizens to be given the first chance at organs available for transplants.
The debate raged until the United Network for Organ Sharing adopted rules that limit each transplant center to performing
no more than 5 percent of its procedures on noncitizens each year. For now, the medical community has accepted those limits."
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"Mack Mahoney, a Louisburg home builder who has helped raise money for Jesica's medical care, said Thursday that he helped her and her mother start the process for becoming documented residents in 2000, and that former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., had helped."
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"In the past, the INS has helped immigrants remain in the United States to secure medical treatment they couldn't get in their own countries, Gottlieb said."