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[quote=Anonymous]https://www.wfae.org/race-equity/2025-12-03/family-says-critically-ill-man-was-pressured-into-deportation-order-after-charlottes-web-sweep

They leaned around a cell phone, straining to hear Enamorado through heavy static from more than 360 miles away inside ICE detention facility in Folkston, Georgia. He was taken there after federal immigration agents [b]stopped him on Nov. 19 while he was driving to a routine dialysis appointment.
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"William? Te escucha?" his mother asked as his sister tried to refill his phone account before the call dropped.

Enamorado has end-stage renal failure and needs nearly five-hour-long dialysis sessions three times a week. Missing an appointment can cause serious health problems that manifest within hours or days — including heart attack and death.

But Enamorado said that after immigration officers stopped him, they put him in a van and transported him more than five hours away without treatment. By the time he arrived in Georgia, he said his feet were swollen and his stomach felt sick.

Williams Javier Toro Enamorado speaks to a reporter through a video call from the ICE detention facility in Folkston, Georgia on Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025.
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Williams Javier Toro Enamorado speaks to a reporter through a video call from the ICE detention facility in Folkston, Georgia on Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025.
"I wanted them to take me to the hospital the day I came here," he said through an interpreter, "but they told me no."

[b]The next day, he said officers took him into a room and told him something worse — that he wouldn't receive dialysis unless he signed a voluntary order for deportation.

"I told the officer if they give me dialysis, I'll stay and fight my case, because dialysis is life or death," he said. But the officers told him no, he said, telling him, "If you want to leave, sign. If not, you're going to die here."[/b][/quote]

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