Homeland Security Chief Faults Parents, 'Open Border' Supporters In Migrant Kids' Deaths

[TomCADem]

Source: Huffington Post

Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen is headed to the U.S.-Mexico border later this week in response to the Christmas Eve death of an 8-year-old Guatemalan boy who was in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

In a statement Wednesday, Nielsen called Felipe Gómez Alonzo death “deeply concerning” and partially blamed the influx of immigrant children detained at the border on those who oppose the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

“Our system has been pushed to a breaking point by those who seek open borders,” Nielsen said. “Smugglers, traffickers, and their own parents put these minors at risk by embarking on the dangerous and arduous journey north.”

Nielsen called on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as “partners in Mexico,” to investigate “an uptick in sick children crossing our borders.”

Read more: https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c11a49be4b002a46c13f3c3

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Using the deaths of children in her custody to push the Fox News talking point that immigrants are disease ridden is just deplorable.

[Racerdog1]

1. Of course she does

This dumb piece of shit showed everyone how stupid she is at the hearings.

[forgotmylogin]

12. Previous administrations didn't cause such calamity WRT border security.

But previous administrations weren't such white racists.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. I want her gone. Hell would be a place for her.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. when I think of how vile they all are, Kavanaugh SCREAMING at Senators demanding they

approve his ALCOHOLIC DRINKING

and then this piece of shit

Fuck...this is too much

[NastyRiffraff]

4. She lacks a soul

or whatever you call the part of the human brain that enables empathy and compassion.

[vlyons]

5. Nielsen is a degenerate

no wonder Trump picked her. For starters, no one advocates for open borders. But we do advocate to open the border to allow assylum seekers to find refuge, which is not the same as open borders. That woman is simply a morally degenerate human being.

[Leghorn21]

6. Hey, lady - we know who the REAL "sick children" are, don't we?

and every one of you filthy cretins can

FUCK RIGHT OFF

[niyad]

7. I have words for her, but most would net me a visit from the suits.

it's poppet time!!

[AllaN01Bear]

8. this pouty faced prez and his failed policys are to blame .

[procon]

9. They're children in custody. The state has full control

Of everyone and that comes with the responsibility to provide appropriate care.

[Solly Mack]

10. That woman is vile.

[Chakaconcarne]

11. An interesting story I picked up....

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/father-dead-guatemalan-boy-heard-rumors-cross-60037662

"The father of an 8-year-old Guatemalan boy who died in U.S. custody took his son to the border after hearing rumors that parents and their children would be allowed to migrate to the United States and escape the poverty in their homeland, the boy's stepsister told The Associated Press."

I've been wondering all along why parents with small children would make such a long, arduous journey all of a sudden..... Heading toward points of entry as if they thought coming into this country would be almost effortless...

I wonder what evil might be spreading these rumors??

The Reich wing has been claiming Soros.... But I've learned, usually when they are quick to blame someone the left, they are just getting in front of the story, so they aren't suspect.

Any guesses?

[ck4829]

13. How would smugglers and traffickers benefit from open borders though?