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Man in ICE Custody Seeking Temporary Release to Donate Kidney to His Brother
Clip: 3/27/2025 | 3m 27sVideo has Closed Captions
A Chicago-area man with kidney failure is fighting for his life.
A Chicago-area man with kidney failure is fighting for his life, while his brother who planned to donate a kidney is now facing an ICE custody battle. Here’s their story.
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Man in ICE Custody Seeking Temporary Release to Donate Kidney to His Brother
Clip: 3/27/2025 | 3m 27sVideo has Closed Captions
A Chicago-area man with kidney failure is fighting for his life, while his brother who planned to donate a kidney is now facing an ICE custody battle. Here’s their story.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>> 2 local brothers are fighting for their lives.
One needs a kidney transplant.
The others willing to donate, but he's in ICE custody and facing deportation.
I recently sat down with one of those brothers to hear their story and how they're fighting to keep hope alive.
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>> In 2023 of for the was diagnosed with kidney failure with only 2% kidney function remaining.
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>> For those life changed overnight.
He now depends on dialysis 3 times a week to stay alive.
But he's luckier than some.
His older brother wants to donate his kidney.
>> It's in fatal, cut time for them.
They do not indicate the whole is going to continue.
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You know, pay on a his brother wholesale.
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Dylan Silence is now facing deportation.
Back to Venezuela.
>> Earlier this month he was detained by ICE outside of the home.
The brother share Jose was nearly deported last year, but instead he was able to remain in Chicago.
>> He wasn't deported because at the time there were deportation flights to Venezuela.
And so he was instead.
Released under supervision with an ankle monitor.
now it's possible that, you know, that place are resuming in and he could be deported.
>> The Resurrection Project is representing Jose and filing a humanitarian parole application seeking his temporary release from ice so he can donate his kidney to save his brother's life.
>> Because he had a prior deportation order.
He was at higher risk and despite the government knowing he was here, despite him not having any criminal record despite him being, you know, waiting to donate his kidney to his brother.
The government took it upon themselves to to put him in jail.
>> For the past says his brother had become his caretaker while he underwent dialysis.
They worked together delivering Amazon packages.
It's at the discretion of >> the federal administration wants.
It's going to be a hard fight ahead, which is why we need all the support that we can get.
>> As for the other has a pending asylum application and a work permit was no legal status to visit his family in Venice he is in Chicago, battling kidney failure without his loved ones by his side.
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>> We did contact ice about the status of Osaze case, but they have yet to respond.
The Resurrection Project says it
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