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Top CBP Officer Testifies Hes Unsure if 3-Year-Old Is a Criminal or a National Security Threat
It was one of a number of disturbing revelations.
By Jeremy Stahl
July 26, 2019
2:30 PM
One of the countrys top border officers cannot say whether a 3-year-old child might pose a criminal or national security threat. This was one of a number of astonishing takeaways from Thursdays latest hearing into family separation.
The 3-year-old in question was Sofi, a little girl who was separated from her grandmother after they arrived at a port of entry in El Paso, Texas, last June seeking asylum. She was separated from her family for 47 days, until the Trump administration was forced to reunite them by court order. Chief of Law Enforcement Operations for Customs and Border Protection Brian S. Hastings still isnt sure if she posed a threat, he told Rep. Ted Lieu during the Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday.
Hastings: I dont know the background in this case, sir.
Ted Lieu: Do you know any 3-year-olds that are criminal or national security threats to the United States?
Hastings: No, I dont.
Ted Lieu: Sophies grandmother was not a national security or criminal threat to the United States, correct?
Hastings: I dont knowagain, I dont know the background of what her grandmother or relatives were.
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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/cbp-chief-brian-hastings-family-separation-judiciary-hearing-not-mueller.html
spanone
(135,900 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)grumpyduck
(6,272 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,634 posts)Hes in the White House!
Eliot Rosewater
(31,131 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,634 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)Damn straight!
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,634 posts)ms liberty
(8,609 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,634 posts)sarge43
(28,946 posts)proActivist
(75 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)POC are automatically a criminal and a national security threat, just ask the White Nationalists.
barbtries
(28,815 posts)they're not even human. they're animals.
never mind that most people treat animals better.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)What are the lower ranks like?
lunasun
(21,646 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)"Yes, I don't know the background in this case, so I am unable to state whether this 3-year-old is a criminal or a national security threat."
"All right, let's approach this from the other end. It sounds like you think a 3-year-old could be a criminal or pose a national security threat. What would make a 3-year-old a criminal or a national security threat, Mr. Hastings?"
". . ."
"I'm waiting, Mr. Hastings. What would make a 3-year-old a criminal? What threat could a 3-year-old pose to the national security of the United States of America, which spent about $2 billion a day last year on military weapons and personnel?"
". . ."
"Are you saying the United States is so weak and frail that it could be taken down by a 3-year-old?"
safeinOhio
(32,736 posts)Sir, are Nucking Futs?
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)with one's face contorting and veins bursting in one's face and neck. If I met that official I would call him a dumbass in the most agressive way possible.
elocs
(22,614 posts)Russian interference in our elections or a 3 year old or even adult coming across our southern border seeking asylum?
gtar100
(4,192 posts)And it's not the Russian interference with our elections. It benefits republicans so they're willing to overlook that issue.
sarge43
(28,946 posts)EveHammond13
(2,855 posts)TeamPooka
(24,264 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)warmfeet
(3,321 posts)We need to correct this ASAP.
Shakes head, disgusted by it all.
barbtries
(28,815 posts)is when it starts to feel surreal, as if the country i was born and raised in is suddenly fiction. sometimes farce, sometimes tragedy, hard to read or watch...but not actually real.
he could not bring himself to admit that a 3 year old is harmless. omigawd.
AllyCat
(16,236 posts)She is THREE you sick Nazi!!