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Download<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In February 2000, Luis Alberto Jim\u00e9nez was returning home from a day\u2019s work as a landscaper in Florida when the car he was riding in was struck by a drunk driver with a blood alcohol level four times the legal limit. While the drunk driver was a U.S. citizen with a significant criminal history, Luis Jim\u00e9nez was a 35 year old undocumented gardener that had left his family behind in Guatemala two years ago and immigrated to the United States in pursuit of his dream of working hard, earning significantly more money, and ultimately being able to buy land and cultivate his own garden back home to support his family. As a result of the head-on crash, Mr. Jim\u00e9nez was catastrophically injured and two of his fellow immigrant landscapers in the car with him died instantly. Mr. Jim\u00e9nez was rushed to Martin Memorial Medical Center (a not for profit hospital) and was diagnosed as having sustained traumatic brain damage and severe physical injuries, with his prognosis described as \u201cpoor.\u201d Mr. Jim\u00e9nez was treated and remained hospitalized at Martin Memorial for approximately four months. In June 2000, Martin Memorial transferred Mr. Jim\u00e9nez to a nursing home for ongoing care and rehabilitation. Because the accident left Mr. Jim\u00e9nez incapacitated, both physically and mentally, a court appointed Mr. Jim\u00e9nez\u2019s cousin, Montejo Gaspar Montejo, as his legal guardian. <a href=\"http:\/\/waynelawreview.org\/the-practice-of-medical-repatriation-the-privatization-of-immigration-enforcement-and-denial-of-human-rights\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,153],"tags":[144,134,149],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/waynelawreview.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/waynelawreview.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/waynelawreview.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/waynelawreview.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/waynelawreview.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/waynelawreview.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1238,"href":"http:\/\/waynelawreview.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions\/1238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/waynelawreview.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/waynelawreview.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/waynelawreview.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}