After the death of a second child in DHS custody, this one an eight-year-old who died on Christmas Eve after being held since Dec. 18, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen felt moved to make a statement. Because she is a terrible person, it's a nasty, defensive statement. "Our system has been pushed to a breaking point by those who seek open borders," she lies, while attempting to pin blame for the death of Felipe Gómez-Alonzo on anyone but her own department.
Given the remote locations of their illegal crossing and the lack of resources, it is even more difficult for our personnel to be first responders.
This isn't a first-responder situation. The child was in your care for a week. The child became sick in a Border Patrol holding facility.
At my direction, all children in Border Patrol custody have been given a thorough medical screening. Moving forward, all children will receive a more thorough hands on assessment at the earliest possible time post apprehension – whether or not the accompanying adult has asked for one.
You weren't doing that before?
I have also spoken with our partners in Mexico to ask that they begin to investigate the causes of these illnesses on their side of the border and to provide medical assistance in shelters as needed.
Oh, so it's not Sec. Nielsen's fault that children are dying in her jail cells; it's Mexico's fault for causing "illnesses." And the judges. And Congress. And whoever else you've got.
As a result of bad judicial rulings from activist judges and inaction by Congress, we are seeing a flood of family units and unaccompanied alien children.
Nielsen should have been obliged to resign months ago for her support for—and brazen public lying about—the new "zero tolerance" policy that resulted in asylum-seeking children being shoveled into desert detention camps. She has proven to be singularly dishonest, even in an administration full of liars, and her insistence on using a statement about the death of a child in U.S. custody to pick fights with all the nasty people insisting on human decency is at this point par for the course.
Want a good dose of anger? Read the whole thing. You'll want to throw your monitor out the window afterwards, though, so make sure someone's there to restrain you.