ER Nurse: “I’m going to say something controversial, but when has that ever stopped me? If your For You page looks anything like mine, then I’m going to assume you’ve seen a lot of the stuff about the deportations that ICE is doing right now. And I’m going to assume if you’re one of the people that’s against it, then you probably have never either been a victim to what illegals in the country looks like or you have never personally seen what that looks like. Well, I have.
So, for reference, I am an ER nurse and I work in Aurora, Colorado out of a trauma center. Aurora, Colorado has been on a lot of news stations as of late because we have been a sanctuary city for a lot of these immigrants, and it’s done a lot of things to our city, none of which have been good. I’m going to start there.
So first and foremost, I’m going to take you back to 2020, long before this was a major issue. But one of the issues that started in 2020 was the defunding of the police force. So Aurora, Colorado, their PD is severely, severely understaffed. I think right now, the last time I spoke to one of the officers that work, they said they have around like 130, 140 open positions for just patrol officers. That’s wild.
Okay, the next thing I’m going to talk about is when you are the victim of a crime or the criminal committing the crime. If you don’t get caught, you’re going to end up in one place, and that’s the ER. If you do get caught, you’re going to end up in jail, that’s the second place. So I’m just going to kind of list off some of the things that I have seen personally in the ER since I started working there in August of 2024.
I have seen a 16-year-old who was shot in the face during a robbery gone wrong. And yeah, she died. Unfortunately, we were not able to save her. Her injury was unsurvivable. That was due to illegal immigrants, the gang activity going on at the apartment complex that she lived. I have seen a dollar store worker beat almost unrecognizable. Yeah, because his store that he was working at got robbed and he tried to defend it. And he lost, obviously. Still alive but had severe, severe injuries and wound up back in the hospital several times. Beat unrecognizable. I was actually his nurse two times in a row, a week apart from when he got beat unrecognizable to when he came back to the hospital because of complications from the facial and head trauma that he had experienced during that.
I have seen assault victims of things that rhyme with “grape.” I have seen assault victims from just illegal activity. I have seen people dropped off by their friends in our ambulance bay due to fentanyl overdoses. I have seen so many car accidents, I can’t even count how many. It’s like at least one a day if not more because these people come to our country and they don’t know our laws, just basic laws like driving laws. And then they get in a wreck. Oh, and guess what? Aurora PD is so severely understaffed. When you get into a wreck here in Colorado, they don’t even immediately respond. No. Almost always, the wreck happens, EMS gets there, they take the patients who need to be transported to the hospital to the hospital. We care for them, and then a couple of hours later, a couple of accident investigation officers and sometimes the patrol officers show up to talk to the patient to ask them what happened.
I had a patient the other day that had severe trauma and a liver laceration. She was bleeding internally, and she had to try and explain to the officer hours later what had happened because the guy that hit her ran and fled the scene. Do you think they’re ever going to catch him? Chances are slim to none. But they do know it was a vehicle with license plates from Chihuahua, Mexico. So I’m just going to assume he’s probably not here legally. Let’s see, what else have I seen? Oh yeah, a 15-year-old that got jumped by gang members. He doesn’t look 15, he looks much older than that so I’m going to assume they didn’t realize he was 15 years old. Yeah, it was severe facial fractures.
I’m going to assume if you don’t have a problem with illegals being in our country, then it’s because you have never been a victim of what it looks like when they are here. Well, I have seen it. I have seen the lives it’s impacted, the lives that literally have been lost because of this, and the lives that have been forever changed because of this. So I’m going to assume if you’re one of the people in downtown Denver protesting this, waving the flag of whatever country it is you don’t want these people to go back to, it’s because you have never been a victim of the crimes that they’re committing. And I pray to God that you never are or that your family never is. Because I’m constantly in fear of if my mom or dad is driving downtown in Aurora. What if they get hit by one of these people and they have life-altering injuries? It truly, I don’t think you guys understand.
Americans like myself, we’re not protesting legal immigration. We’re protesting illegal immigration. Okay? Because I want the place where my son lives to be safe. I don’t want my son getting jumped when he’s older by a bunch of gang members. I don’t want myself getting assaulted by these people if I am at a store that they happen to be robbing. Like, I don’t think you guys truly understand what the issues are. Like, we’re not just deporting regular, everyday, law-abiding citizens. No, they’re specifically targeting violent criminals that have been crossing our borders for a year now, if not more, illegally, and then just wreaking havoc on our communities.
And if you live in some little bubble where you haven’t been affected by this, then good for you. I’m glad for you, but that’s not the reality for a lot of us. Also, these people that do come to the hospital that are part of this group of people, guess what? They’re either not insured or somehow they’ve managed to get Medicaid, and they receive better treatment and care than the people that are here legally or were born here and just have crap for healthcare. That also blows my mind. You could be treated better medically as an illegal than you could as a natural-born citizen in America. And that’s wild to me.
So yeah, if you’re someone who has an issue with these deportations, then I would really, really, really like you to just take a moment and think what it would be like if you were directly impacted by the crimes that they’ve been committing. Or your family was. And why it’s important that we now have someone in charge who wants to make our country safe for our children and for us. Because as a mother, that matters to me, and it will always matter to me. And it’s time you all start giving a crap about your American fellow citizens here and not all these random people who literally could not care less about you or the country that they’re in. Okay? Okay, thanks.”
