Health Care System Dept: "I am not just another Mexican trying to stay," said the father, Nicolas Rodriguez. "I'm just another parent, trying to save my son's life and keep him healthy.", according to CBC. Ariel has had several medical treatments in B.C., including a bone-marrow transplant, which improved his condition and prognosis significantly. His doctor expects he can now live with his illness but he still requires life-long, complex medical care and a Canadian-born child with a serious illness may soon lose the benefits of B.C.'s health-care system if the federal government deports his Mexican father, who was once a member of a U.S. criminal gang. Six-year-old Ariel Rodriguez was born in Vancouver in 2003, two years after his mother and father came to Canada from Mexico and claimed refugee status. The boy has Hurler's disease, a genetic enzyme deficiency that is rare, debilitating and often fatal. As
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