Juan's black tennis shoes sit at the end of his bed, a baseball cap is pulled low on his head and tubes snake out from under a blanket to a machine humming beside him that is taking blood from his arm, cleaning it and pumping it back into his body. Juan, 43, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico who asked that his identity be concealed due to fears of deportation, is receiving dialysis for kidney failure at OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital. He's one of approximately 6,500 undocumented immigrants who need dialysis in the United States, according to a 2018 study in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Undocumented immigrants such as Juan, who don't have a Social Security number and can't afford...
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I've heard there is also a serious shortage of intensive care units in remote, uninhabited areas of Sonoran desert and I'm outraged. I encourage everyone to write your Congressperson and demand every square inch of land on the planet be developed solely for the betterment of Mexican nationals.