PHILADELPHIA — Immigration activists are trying to stop an Allentown, Pennsylvania, hospital from forcibly repatriating a desperately ill woman to her Dominican Republic homeland, saying the undocumented mother of two could die if sent away.
The 46-year-old woman, identified only as S.C. to protect her privacy, experienced complications from surgery after suffering a brain aneurysm in late December. Since then she has been in a coma at Lehigh Valley Health Network's Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest.
"Her husband and son have been taking turns watching over her, because they're very concerned the hospital is going to move her without their consent," said Adrianna Torres-Garcia, deputy director of the Free Migration Project, a Philadelphia-based advocacy group.
