Children are dying in border holding facilities. A top immigration official is pleading for help

[DonViejo]

Source: USA Today/AP


Associated Press Published 7:02 a.m. ET June 20, 2019 | Updated 7:03 a.m. ET June 20, 2019

WASHINGTON — When 16-year-old Carlos Hernandez Vasquez fell ill in a holding facility at the U.S.-Mexico border, he was diagnosed with the flu and given medication, then sent back to a cell to recuperate on a concrete bench.

But Carlos didn't get better. The Guatemalan migrant died May 20 from flu complications — a glaring sign that Border Patrol stations aren't set up to manage thousands of children.

If they must, they need better medical care and a place for sick kids to convalesce, acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner John Sanders told The Associated Press. That's why Congress must pass the $4.6 billion in emergency funding, he said shortly before the request took a step forward in the Senate Wednesday.

And if not, Sanders said, more kids may die.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/06/20/mexico-border-top-immigration-official-pleads-emergency-funding/1508376001/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatodaycomwashington-topstories

[keithbvadu2]

1. Border Patrol Agent Proves AOC's Point: 'The Kids Are Outside Their Cell'

Border Patrol Agent Proves AOC's Point: 'The Kids Are Outside Their Cell'

https://crooksandliars.com/2019/06/border-patrol-agent-proves-aocs-point-kids

[SunSeeker]

2. K & R

[atreides1]

3. Come on now?

We all know where that money will end up...in Trump's wall fund!

Remember that it's not CBP who are responsible for housing the children, it's HHS who is the responsible party...why isn't HHS asking for emergency funding?

[EleanorR]

5. Dems have written in a provision to prevent that, however

However, having read this thread, I don't believe a word any of these evil monsters say about wanting money so they can help these children.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212204741

[Bayard]

4. "border holding facilities"

Much easier to just say, Concentration Camps. Its what all Dems should be saying.

[CrispyQ]

6. I wonder how bad the conditions really are at these camps?

Wasn't it just last week three congresswomen weren't allowed in a facility in FL? People think it can't happen here, even as it's happening before our eyes. JFC, I am sick.

[Initech]

7. Well think about who is running the show here...

Republicans? Yeah you know that they are going to treat people like shit.

[Vegas Roller]

8. These stories make me have tears in my eyes

and a raging anger in my heart that we allowing this to happen and the whole system seems to be powerless to stop it.

[Stuart G]

9. K and R for exposure...

[Solly Mack]

10. K&R

[Timmygoat]

11. One more untold story

A (so called) pastor from North Carolina (Walker) is proposing that we cut off all funding for the Peace Corps ( working since Kennedy to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of children in poor countries) and a program we can be proud of. It has apparently saved the lives of 700,000 children from HIV. If this is not the epitome of evil I don't know what is. I wish someone would research and publicize this. Of course he is a republican and has not had one word to say about the suffering of the children in camps at the border.
One more republican who claims to be holier that thou, yet is an evil black hearted coward.

[DemSoc]

12. K & R !! n/t