It’s also dangerous when the government puts all sort of illegal, unnecessary and cruel obstacles in their way to make immigration more difficult.
Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events.
— Thomas Jefferson
“If she’s old enough to represent herself in court, then she’s definitely old enough to avoid dying in custody,” Nielsen added.
“…a 7-year-old migrant girl who died of shock and dehydration while in Border Patrol custody…”
There are now 15,000 (!) children in cages at the border.
People swung at Nuremberg for this sort of thing.
It’s also dangerous to ignore and withhold medical treatment from that child for 8 ( f#!%ing) hours after incarceration. I hope heads will roll on this one, eventually. " No one could’ve foreseen she would die after days without water!"
Logic fail + empathy fail + credulity fail = Consciousness of guilt
It’s getting harder and harder to talk about these things. Too painful. I wish I weren’t feeling the shame she ought to.
It’s sad, you know. Very sad. Come here and we might kill you. It really wrenches our hearts when we do that.
Dear god… someone needs to update the wikipedia page: “Lack of Humanity” with this woman’s picture.
Shouldn’t knowing how dangerous their journey has been make you more considerate in their apprehension and detainment? Exactly how many soldiers has this country lost due to these asylum seekers? C’mon, Nielsen @ trumpco have a heart. It’s Christmas. Can you say Feliz Navidad?
This may be the most sinful, evil and transparent example of an underling supporting a boss I have ever personally seen in many years
How many people have sold their souls to uphold and defend the buffoon? Seriously. So many… Is it so hard to just show some empathy, rather than try to defend something that is probably defenseless? Why even say those things?
Dead-eyed babykiller says what?
She called the death “heart-wrenching,” but said it was “a very sad example” of what can happen when immigrants “choose to come here illegally.”
Yes, we have all manner of cruelty to inflict upon you…tRumpleThinSkin wants me to be even more cruel, EVIL even… You might die from it!
America, America…
She said of the dead child,
“If she’s old enough to represent herself in court, then she’s definitely old enough to avoid dying in custody,”
May the Christmas ghosts of Charles Dickens visit regularly the minds of people like this.
She called the death “heart-wrenching,” but said it was “a very sad example” of what can happen when immigrants “choose to come here illegally.”
She died while in US Custody you fucking ghoul!
Succinctly and accurately put. Nielsen’s response here is eerily similar to John Kelly’s response on family separation, where he went on about how “the important thing here is deterrence”. I guess if that’s your overriding goal, all manner of terrible outcomes are a bonus feature, not a bug.
It’s also revealing of what internal discussions at Homeland Security and ICE must sound like – the ones we don’t hear on TV. If she can say something like this and not die of shame and embarrassment from the cruel contradictions, it’s likely she regularly hears the same (or worse) behind closed doors. Or says those things herself.
The Ugly American used to refer to obnoxious Americans abroad. Trump has brought the Ugly American back home.
When the parents of a seven year old decide their family’s sole hope for survival is asylum, is that child able to make a different choice?