Department of Homeland Security Chief Kirstjen Nielsen showed up at the White House press briefing to answer questions from a White House press corps that had been waiting for nearly four hours as the briefing was delayed numerous times. After a torrent out outright lies defending the Trump policy of separating asylum-seeking children from their parents and holding them in prison-like camps indefinitely, Nielsen was asked, “Where are the girls? Were are the toddlers?” After all, reporters have only been given photos and videos of men and young boys being detained, no sign of the girls and the younger detainees, some of whom are infants without their mothers.
Nielsen refuses to tell reporters where they are, and says she’ll look into that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And here was her response when asked, “How is this not child abuse?”
To be clear, taking children from their parents and indefinitely locking up asylum-seeking children escaping brutal violence in their home countries is fucking child abuse. Listen to this audio of a six year old wailing and yelling, “Nooooo, Papa! Noooo, Papa!” as border agents separate them. The child begs to call her aunt in the U.S., one phone call and she’s memorized the number, and the agents can be heard laughing. THIS IS CHILD ABUSE!
Sign the petition: Homeland Security chief Kirstjen Nielsen must resign.