A green card holder currently in a Texas immigration detention center has begged to be deported due to chronic pain, even offering to pay for his own flight out.

Deon Lewis, 43, has spent most of his life in the United States on a valid green card for over 30 years. Born in Trinidad, Lewis is battling a chronic sickle cell disease, but told the outlet that the detention center failed to provide the necessary medical treatment.

“It’s only a matter of time before something really bad happens to me,” Lewis said, according to the Houston Chronicle. “Why haven’t I been deported yet? I’ve been begging these people to deport me.”

Lewis was detained in Louisiana before being transferred to Houston on June 30, likely for a crime he committed in 2002, where he pled guilty to possessing cocaine.

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