Nielsen: Girl's death in border patrol custody 'a sad example of the dangers' migrants face

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico


By CAITLIN OPRYSKO 12/14/2018 09:20 AM EST

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Friday that the death of a 7-year-old girl in the custody of U.S. Border Patrol last week “is a very sad example of the dangers” migrants face when they try to illegally 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.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection acknowledged Thursday night that the girl died of exhaustion and dehydration less than 48 hours after authorities at the border took the girl into custody along with her father and a large group of migrants who crossed into New Mexico illegally.

The Washington Post reported Thursday that the girl began having seizures roughly eight hours after being taken into custody and was attended to by emergency responders, who found that she was running a 105.7-degree fever. According to CBP, the girl had “reportedly had not eaten or consumed water for several days.”

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

[HopeAgain]

1. Blood on DHS' hands

Eight hours after being taken into custody? What happened in the meantime? This is Trump's SS.

[atreides1]

2. Ilsa She Wolf of the SS

Lying through her teeth again! Ever notice how when she talks she tends to pucker her lips, as if she's getting ready to kiss her Fuhrer's ass???

[LeftInTX]

12. Haa!! I saw that movie!! She reminds me of Ilsa!!

[pangaia]

3. " "I hope she got immediate care and received water as everybody should at the border,..."

You HOPE, You don't KNOW.!!

"Still, she said, “We cannot stress how dangerous the journey is when migrants come illegally.”

More dangerous to walk 1000+ miles "illegally" than "legally?" I don't THINK so, asshole.

"“My heart goes out to the family, all of DHS,” "

HUH? What heart? and...your heart goes out to....DHS ? Double HUH HUH?

Just another ignorant hate-filled republican randian

[SunSeeker]

4. How could they take a 7 year old into cutody and not give her an immediate medical check?!

They picked her and her father up in the desert. They had to know they were in bad shape. Then they separate the two, further stressing the girl. She had to have already been running a fever and would have been obviously ill and hot to the touch. She should have been immediately hospitalized-- with her father to comfort her. To do nothing for her but throw her into confinement for 8 hours until she went into seizures is craven, heartless evil.
It is murder.

[csziggy]

11. A guest on MSNBC this morning said med checks, food and water are required

By the legal settlement over immigrant treatment. But he was not sure if DHS was following those legal guidelines.

If not Nielsen should be held in contempt of court locked up until her department obeys the court order.

[George II]

5. What a cold hearted, cruel person/

[NCjack]

6. This child death death is a sad example of

murder by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. When DEMs get in, I want justice for those who did that.

[Grins]

7. About as useless as, "thoughts and prayers...

“My heart goes out to the family...” - Nielsen.

About as useless as, "thoughts and prayers™, and I don't believe you spent a second on either, unless it was to CYA.

[ROB-ROX]

8. THEY KILLED A LITTLE GIRL

We are in modern times and we have the medical ability to save people's lives. They killed a little girl because they are paid killers. They did not try to save a life because "lives do not matter" to these drones. Separating the parent from the child was a death sentence. The nazis would be proud of the border drones who do what the nazis did in the past - murder and kill people......

[Bayard]

9. Wonder how many more like this

Surprised this story even got out.

I thought they had been ordered to stop separating families?

[Cousin Dupree]

10. This is a sad example, all right. A sad example of blaming the victim(s)

[LeftInTX]

13. Nielsen your CBP Commissioner contradicts you:

On Tuesday, CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said during testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee that the agency’s holding cells are “incompatible” with the new reality of parents with children coming across the border to surrender to agents en masse, requesting asylum.

“Our Border Patrol stations were built decades ago to handle mostly male single adults in custody, not families and children,” McAleenan told lawmakers.

[haele]

14. Even so, when someone who is obviously in medical distress comes in, you check them out.

If someone comes in looking exhausted and dehydrated after days in the desert - and that's not that hard to figure out with basic medical knowledge or even just a wrist pinch - get IVs in that person immediately.

They probably just shoved everyone into cells or pens and left them there without more than an occasional walk by to go on about the normal day's work until someone came in to process people being held one at a time. They'll claim they were "overwhelmed", and that will be that so far as the government is concerned.

After all, it's not like they were beating them or turning dogs on them...(Border Abu Gahrb...)

Haele

[erpowers]

15. Not An Example of Dangers Migrants Face

This is not an example of the dangers migrants face; this is a example of government agencies being mismanaged. The CBP could have checked to see if this girl and her father had eaten and had water during their journey. Why did the CBP not know what was happening to this girl until eight hours after she and her father were detained? This girl and her father should have been checked immediately after they were detained. Then the should have been given food and water.

[Gothmog]

16. This asshole is blaming the victim