Petition updateUtah Remains Silent — Leaders From Texas and Minnesota Acted. Families Deserve CourageUTAH to Receive $57 M Settlement from Opioid Manufacturers
Victoria SethunyaSLC, UT, United States
27 Apr 2022

How cruel and unjust! My son, Chris, is being commodified! Pure evil.. am without words.

Updating the above two lines with the text below on 10/30/2022. I was too numb to think about the news. Unbelievable!


My son's back was injured while working for Associated Foods. A doctor or doctors saw him in Utah. They prescribed opioid medications to him, and he became dependent on them. When he arrived in the United States, he did not have a broken back and was not on pain medications. His injuries happened in Utah.
During my conversations with his immigration attorneys and others, I asked why my son was being deported with the injuries he sustained while at work in Utah. At the same time, the State was suing Big Pharma for the injuries they caused people like my son. No one listened. They deported my son anyway.
Chris no longer has back problems and is not on pain medications. 
It was unfair for the State of Utah to push my son's recovery on me and others outside the United States who had no hand in his work injuries. 
Where are the other Utah state opioid victims? Did they like my son to get thrown out of the country, which the Utah government collected funds on their broken back? My son was a patient like many Utah Big Pharma victims and should not have been treated differently.

I took a step away because I got overwhelmed by the family separation trauma.
Some of you have seen the Black Exmormon stories on Tiktok. It was difficult to leave the LDS Church because it had become another home for me, but the continuing acts of racism in the church have not helped. This separation from my son originated with the events in which Utah Mormons were at Weber State University when I was a student there. I believe they saw nothing wrong with what they did to me because Mormons believe Black people were cursed in premortal existence. I believe that because of this curse, Utah Mormons, including those in government, make light of non-white family integrity. That's why I am banking on your support to be reunited with my son. We are a black family, but we don't deserve to be torn apart. Thank you for your love and support. I appreciate you

Some people ask how my son encountered ICE. DA Sim Gill claimed he committed a crime, yet Gill's office failed to appear in court at least twice. That is why I say DA Sim Gill's office framed my son for a crime.

 

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