And President Trump said nothing except build a wall and appoint Kobach to oversee the concentration camps.
But Melania said “I really don’t care, do U?” which remains the federal government’s position on the matter.
MS-13 gang members have compromised immune systems due to poor diet and illicit drug abuse habits. This was probably inevitable.
This is such a national disgrace, and yet, no one gets held to account. Republicans have shown their true racism and complicity with this lawless President and his equally lawless administration with their absolute silence on this.
There’s an antediluvian concept.
I question the pressure put on the doctors at the hospitals these children were seen. Young children with the flu or any other respiratory complaints can crash fast.
Nielsen and her excuses about her department “Our system and facilities were never structured to withstand the current influx of immigrants,” is BS. Ellis Island handled boat loads of immigrants, plus she should have been paying attention to scores of refugees fleeing Syria during the war. It’s not like the world hasn’t seen mass exodus of people on the move before. To me it’s just another example of how this particular person is mentally unprepared to deal with things during an emergency, i.e. Hurricane Katrina.
b-but they are pro-life, as they never tire of telling us
also ellis island had its own hospital and quarantine ward dedicated to the care of immigrants
In the whole history of man kind this shouldn’t be a surprise to this administration that when bad things happen where one is then one picks up and goes. What is pathetic is that the person who couldn’t see the danger during Katrina still hasn’t figured out how to prepare.
It’s lost in the article, but basically neither of these kids had to die…if they received proper medical care they would still be alive. This should be laid at the feet of DHS, and in a functional system there would be policy changes to make sure people weren’t sick and dying in our care. I have no doubt that individual agents do their best to try to make that happen, but the system is stacked against them right now, and led by people who are apparently just fine with people dying as disincentive for others to come here.
I am not a doctor, but I have had young sick kids. If they thought the kid just had the flu, he shouldn’t have been getting an antibiotic, because flu is viral. If they knew he had a staph infection in his lungs, they shouldn’t have discharged him. Not that I expect medical personnel made the decision.
Well, in Ellis Island:
- Immigrants (all legal) were quarantined.
- Sick immigrants were turned away. I had relatives returned to Europe. This kid and her family would have been denied entry
- They were not released until everything had completed.
- Families were retained together. They did not have the Flores decision forcing the children to be separated.
Ellis Island is exactly what we should be doing. Since these people want to have an asylum hearing, hold them until that hearing takes place, and then return the 95% who fail to get asylum immediately.
Actually, sick immigrants have ALWAYS been denied entry, and that should be happening here.
“The procedure was intimidating, and, indeed, between 1891 and 1930 nearly 80,000 immigrants were barred at the nation’s doors for diseases or defects.”
The kids were in the nation already, which means they already entered into our care…at that point it was the responsibility of Border Patrol to make sure they were cared for properly.