DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen blames 7-year old girl for her own death.

[RandySF]

The Homeland Security Department on Friday posted a timeline of the girl’s detention and death on Facebook. The girl’s father advised Border Patrol officials that she had become sick and was vomiting before officials put the family on a bus from an outpost near the border to a Border Patrol Station in Lordsburg, New Mexico, according to DHS. The trip took roughly 90 minutes, the department said.

Upon arrival, “the father notified agents that the child was not breathing,” DHS said.

The girl was then transported by helicopter to a hospital where she was later pronounced dead. DHS said initial indications showed she died from septic shock.

The DHS inspector general’s office will conduct an investigation into the incident, the watchdog announced Friday afternoon. The results will be shared with the department, Congress and the public, the office said.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said earlier Friday the “heart-wrenching” death “is a very sad example of the dangers” migrants face when they try to enter the U.S.

“My heart goes out to the family, all of DHS,” Nielsen said in an interview on Fox News' “Fox & Friends,” where she also touted new border-crossing statistics.

Nielsen on Friday painted the incident as a cautionary tale that could have been avoided had the girl and her father entered into the U.S. legally.

“This family chose to cross illegally,” she said. “They were about 90 miles away from where we could process them. It took a such a large crowd, it took our Border Patrol folks a couple times to get them all.”

While Nielsen said Border Patrol gave the family “immediate care,” she said that DHS would look into the incident.



https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/14/nielsen-migrant-girl-death-border-patrol-1063729

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. If DHS had not shown up, what would have happened to the girl?

I don't have access to Facebook -- by choice -- so I can't see the timeline.

[shenmue]

2. Well FUCK HER

[duhneece]

3. On Facebook's Alamogordo City Watch

Someone posted, ‘Shit happens when you break the law.’ Evil lack of compassion

[Snackshack]

4. Yea.

There are many comments on Twitter by people blaming the father for this. News accounts on this story vary so I am gonna hold judgment till more facts come out.

CNN story says the girl was in custody of CBP for 8 hrs. That the father said they were both fine when initially brought into custody and assessed but that he told that she had not eaten or drank any water for several days but that they were both fine...but the not eating or drinking for days should have raised a red flag. Also the remoteness of area (Antelope Wells) was reason for 90min bus ride to station and that it was during this ride that she started to present problems...why they did not call for a helicopter at this point or if they could is not clear.

I certainly don’t blame the father for wanting to provided a better world for his daughter. At the same time not convinced CPB committed some sort of willful or malicious neglect on their part. This is a tragic story and there are a lot of questions need answered and if those answers warrant charges we’ll know then.

[oberliner]

5. Was that the original headline of this piece?

Or is that your own original title?

[Apollyonus]

6. She is such a racist tool