This Has Simply Got to Stop
A 7 year-old girl died in Border Patrol detention yesterday, apparently from dehydration and hunger. This tragedy came to light almost immediately after a story reported by NPR revealed that 15,000 immigrant kids are being held in detention and that facilities are full. What we are witnessing live on national television and on the net is nothing short of massive crimes against humanity by a lawless administration while invertebrate Republicans in control Congress do NOTHING to stop this continuing violation of US and international human rights laws.
I’ve had just about enough of this shit which goes virtually unnoticed, buried in the blizzard of reality television tweets and the outrageous lies spewing from Trump’s mouth in continuous volcanic eruptions. While he lies to cover up felonies committed by himself and his cronies, our government, along with our society, is dying from this cancer that is being negligently allowed to metastasize and threaten our very survival.
It’s long past time for the Congress to get off its collective ass and do its goddam job. I have no hope for the Senate, at least yet, but the House Dems, led by Nancy Pelosi, can at least throw out an anchor to slow our careening government from slamming into Trump’s giant wall (not the one on the border, but the one of lies he’s constructed in DC).
Enough is enough.
The saddest thing of all El Jefe, is that this little child’s death has been hardly mentioned on the televised MSM. Shameful.
1I’m sorry, little one, that all we offered you was death or imprisonment.
2El Jefe, if you *really* want to know what’s going on in the good ‘ol USA, follow as many liberal religious leaders as you can.
They’ve been visiting the tent encampments for children since the tents went up and documenting what they’ve found.
Moral Mondays are still going on.
There are protests in DeeCee just about every day.
None of this is covered on the TeeVee, yet we persist.
3Jefe, knew about this poor kid inasmuch as I troll somewhat unusual sites specifically devoted to immigration issues, that is. I had prayed and hoped that this would never happen although I knew intellectually that in the world of statistics it would. I pray that the House will have a Speaker who is a grandmother who can really relate to this and swing more than just an anchor!
4The level of inhumanity shown by this corrupt administration and the complicit Republicans has fallen below that of fascist dictatorships. Impeachment is not enough. Prosecution to the furthest degree is required.
5I’m having trouble wrapping my head around the 15,000 figure. Can we trust NPR on this fact? Is NPR sensationalizing the figure? I just have trouble believing that many immigrant kids are incarcerated.
6Evangelicals, can you see the Mexican border and a murdered child (2nd degree, maybe) from your house? If not, can you see a Bible with the Sixth Commandment, thou shalt not kill, from your comfortable home?
No, but you can see Fox News you say?
7Micr, sadly the numbers are accurate, possibly even under reported. Look no further than the self dealing friends of Donnie constructing mega detention camps out of tents for profit. Explains the pardoning of Joe Arpaio; he was needed for ‘technical’ advice. Consider the caravans as Donnie’s “wag the dog” moment, except the people and their suffering are real.
Remembering how something as small as a box of pens could be tracked in a military imprest account, am having major difficulty believing anything coming out of DHS and Kirstjen Nielsen. One unnecessary death is too many, children not being reunited with their families because DHS lost track? The video from the border has been sickening to watch. One would need to be blind, deaf and Dotard45 level st00pid to not foresee the tragic potential of these ‘policies.’ John Kelly and Jeff Sessions deserve jail time with Nielsen. This is MAGAt winning: children suffer and we as a nation will pay bigly for this both morally and financially. Hard to hear the sound of the lawsuits coming over the thunder of indictment, but they’re coming.
8This is criminally negligent homicide. I want the perpetrators brought before the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Now. Sooner rather than later.
9Two points: watch your local TV news tonight, featuring a puppy or kitten caught in a life-threatening situation. It will get more attention than this poor child.
10If you happen to be in a place to be preached to this weekend, listen for a reference to Joseph, Mary and Jesus escaping to Egypt to avoid Jesus’ murder. Maybe no border guards or fences at that time, but we wouldn’t be worshiping Jesus now if that family met the same resistance they would meet today coming from Mexico. So, Jesus saying “…suffer the little children…for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” or “Whatever you did to the least of these, you did unto me” is just feel good talk for the so-called christians who forget the real reason for Christmas. I won’t hear that sermon on Sunday and bet you won’t either.
That child had no food or water in DAYS. When captured by USA they gave her none. Eight hours! later, still without water, she died of dehydration. Criminal neglect. Somewhere Stephen Miller (house nazi) is celebrating.
11The problem isn’t Rump, though he’s a problem. The problem is the Republican Party and its supporters.
12Look y’all, as bad is this case is, it doesn’t compare to one some months ago involving another (18 month old) girl. (there was again a local news segment on this yesterday)
That toddler and her mother were caught at the border seeking asylum, then placed in an ICE detention facility in Dilley, TX (not too far from here, our band kids and we sometimes traveled to Dilley for football games).
The previously healthy little girl quickly showed signs of being ill, having apparently contracted ‘something’ in the crowded detention facility. Her respiratory condition rapidly worsened as she was given a far below minimum of medical attention, never being seen by a doctor in 4-5 weeks at the detention facility.
The girl was then released, very sick, into distant kinfolk custody along with her mom, they were taken to the San Antonio airport and flown to New Jersey. Anyone who has dealt with children sick with various respiratory conditions (like me and most of you) know damned well that an airline flight shouldn’t even be considered.
The girl’s condition was becoming critical by the time the plane landed, her mom took her straight to a hospital emergency room. She was admitted and her condition worsened over a few weeks of ICU care, then she died.
Ignoring the human cost (I cannot express my opinion here without getting forever banned from JJ’s, or a serious visit from the ScrtSvc), this is just insane.
The private contract ICE detention center saves a few dollars by providing grossly negligent health care for the detainees.
Then when some of them, in this case an 18 month old toddler, become ill, the extreme costs of an acute medical intervention are passed off on various public entities.
Had this girl received a bare minimum of medical care, a few doctor’s exams, a course or two of antibiotics, some aspirin, whatever, she would likely still be alive.
That minimum care would have cost perhaps a few hundred dollars in Dilley. Instead it ended up costing six weeks or so of hospital pediatric ICU care, which had to be close to $200,000 or more, paid for by we taxpayers.
And her mom now has lawyers lined up suing everybody in sight for $60 million, which she will probably, justifiably, get.
Yet another lesson in Rethuglican economics and humanity, now in hyperdrive under this evil, corrupt-to-the-core regime.
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/28/642738732/a-toddlers-death-adds-to-concerns-about-migrant-detention
https://www.bing.com/search?q=yazmin+juarez+mariee+dilley&form=OPRTSD&pc=OPER
13@Jane & PKM
14Thanks
DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was on Fox this morning. In the words of Charles Pierce, “She promptly blamed the child’s family, because she is a monstrous cyborg whose soul is a bag of scorpions.”
Yes.
15Trump and his ICE deliberately hurt children.
Here’s a carol for them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojTtfocIbVU
16it has been said before that the thuglicans and christianist allies only care about children before they are born and when they become old enough to qualify as cannon fodder.
17Everything in between, or after, is fair game for nra true beleivers, hunters and police to murder and abuse at will.
Remember how it’s been reported how our actions in Iraq drove desperate people into the open arms of Isis?
18Actual journalists have reported that very few of these migrants are dangerous.
Well, using our tax dollars to enrich the private vultures capitalizing on the misery of desperate people, they’ll create a whole generation of people right on our southern border who’ll want to do us harm.
This child and the previous one are finally getting a lot of mainstream media print, thank goodness. Now here is where it gets raspy. Count on the Golden Gibbon or his surrogates to declare that both of these kids were already carriers of some disease that then brought into this country, particularly the y younger one who did not recover despite treatment at a decent hospital. Just gird your spiritual armor is all I am saying. Just because the GG and his troops are just that corrupted.
19GeneB –
The only churches likely to ever mention the flight in to Egypt are also those which follow order of readings in the Revised Common Lectionary, which appoints that lesson for the feast of the Holy Innocents (Dec. 28), the feast of the Epiphany (January 6), and as an *alternate* Gospel reading for the Second Sunday in Christmastide (of which there isn’t one this year).
Pretty sure it’s gonna get mentioned in some Christmas Eve sermons, though, this year.
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