Let me guess the response form the right:
Good, this will act as a deterrent!
The parent should have thought about this before dragging their kid through the desert!
Let me guess the response form the right:
Good, this will act as a deterrent!
The parent should have thought about this before dragging their kid through the desert!
It's not good... and it being a deterrent is the last thing on my mind...
and yes, the parent should have thought about that... if they had any ounce of responsibility. Illegal human trafficking is not a safe environment for a child.
Let me guess the response form the right:
Good, this will act as a deterrent!
The parent should have thought about this before dragging their kid through the desert!
It's not good... and it being a deterrent is the last thing on my mind...
and yes, the parent should have thought about that... if they had any ounce of responsibility. Illegal human trafficking is not a safe environment for a child.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...s-border-patrol-washington-post-idUSKBN1OD05L
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A 7-year-old girl from Guatemala died of dehydration and shock hours after she was taken into U.S. Border Patrol custody, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.
The girl and her father had been detained by immigration authorities on Dec. 6 in New Mexico as part of a group of 163 people who approached U.S. agents to turn themselves in, the Post reported.
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According to the ABC New last night, the group had crossed into the U.S. & were without food or water in the desert for 2 days. Those factors alone could kill a strong adult. I don't know exactly what happened after she was detained, but it does look like someone in authority might have dropped the ball here. From my personal knowledge having once run a 104 degree fever, the doctor said if it was 105 I should have been in the hospital. I hope there is an investigation. What happened in those 'hours after'?
This was not trafficking. They were a family trying to enter the U.S.
They were taken into custody after traveling in the dessert for a long time. They were held for hours and DHS didn't provide water. That's negligence.the response from the alt left: give the parent and award for gettin her daughter killed!
I have a couple thoughts on this matter, JacksinPA. First, the headline is a bit misleading. The child was already severely dehydrated when she was taken into custody. So the article headline helps make one leap to the conclusion that she was simply left to languish and die by DHS, when she passed only hours after being caught. This is like if the child's father savagely beat her before they were caught and she died of her injuries immediately after being taken custody, but the headline read: "Child dies in the hands of DHS after being savagely beaten." It is totally irresponsible in my arrogantly self-righteous opinion. Second, I am not going to engage in the bigotry of low expectations by assuming the father of this little girl was simply so ignorant that he did not know traveling in a desert without food and water would be dangerous for a little girl. I am going to give the man some credit and presume he knew the risks of traveling across the desert with a child, and his child died as a result of his calculated risk. I do not believe anything justifies taking such a risk unless the man took his child and was literally fleeing from being thrown into a mass grave with her.
Let me guess the response form the right:
Good, this will act as a deterrent!
The parent should have thought about this before dragging their kid through the desert!
Its not the first time that people have died trying to get to the US. It won't be the last. So no, this won't act as a deterrent. Of course you knew that already.
And yes, the parents SHOULD have thought about this before dragging their 7 year old child through the desert. It's stupid to assert or imply otherwise.
That's sad. I hate to read about any young child dying. Too bad nobody thought to get her medical treatment. May she rest in peace.
According to a report in the Washington Post citing Customs and Border Protection records, the girl was in Border Patrol custody for approximately eight hours in the New Mexico desert when she began having seizures. Emergency responders took her temperature, which came out to 105.7 degrees.
Per CBP — whose account of the girl’s death is the only one which has been publicly-reported thus far — she was taken by helicopter to a children’s hospital in El Paso, and died less than 24 hours later.
They were taken into custody after traveling in the dessert for a long time. They were held for hours and DHS didn't provide water. That's negligence.
Per the article in post 7:
You were saying?
Please provide evidence that DHS did not provide water.
I guess it just depends on what they were running from... Not sure anyone here should judge - unless, of course, they have some first hand knowledge about the family in question.
Bottom line, if the child reached American custody, they need to demonstrate that they did their due diligence. If they did, then it's merely a horribly tragic event that I wouldn't wish on any parent. If they didn't, then they have some explaining to do.
Please provide evidence that they did.
Not how it works Tres. An assertion was made, they need to provide evidence of their assertion. Which is all that I asked for.
I wonder how the father felt as he brought his daughter with him because the place that he left was so dangerous that he didn't think he could adequately protect her there. Then, he comes to the United States and, short on supplies, his daughter gets progressively sicker. I can imagine that there was some small ounce of relief when she was taken from him by the border patrol and taken into custody. "At least they'll give her water," he probably thought. I wonder how he felt upon learning that not only did they not give her water, but let her die a slow death of dehydration? What did that slow death look like, and how did the father feel about that?
If you don't think immigrants are human, then I imagine it's quite easy to not wonder about such things.
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