Ken Cuccinelli, head of citizenship service, blames migrant father for drowning deaths...

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post


Ken Cuccinelli, head of citizenship service, blames migrant father for drowning deaths captured in photo

By Meagan Flynn June 28 at 6:38 AM

Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, said on CNN Thursday night that a widely circulated photograph of a migrant father and his 23-month-old daughter who drowned on the banks of the Rio Grande was tragic, but that it was the father’s fault they died — and not the fault of U.S. asylum policy requiring migrants to wait in Mexico.

Cuccinelli, an immigration hard-liner nominated this month by President Trump to lead the federal agency that oversees legal immigration, including asylum, made the case while speaking on “Erin Burnett OutFront.” The news anchor asked if Cuccinelli believed the graphic photo could be compared to the 2015 of the 3-year-old Syrian boy who had washed up on a beach, an image that had turned the world’s attention to the anguish confronting refugees trying to reach Europe. Would the photo of this father and daughter become a symbol of the Trump administration’s policies on the border? Burnett asked.

Cuccinelli said no, “in fact the opposite.”

“The reason we have tragedies like that on the border is because that father didn’t wait to go through the asylum process in the legal fashion and decided to cross the river and not only died but his daughter died tragically as well,” said Cuccinelli, 50. “Until we fix the attractions in our asylum system, people like that father and that child are going to continue to come through a dangerous trip.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/06/28/ken-cuccinelli-immigration-blame-migrant-father-daughter-death/

[Dennis Donovan]

1. The father probably didn't want his child taken away from him!

Fuck Kookinelli!

[johnp3907]

2. Nazisezwhat?

[C_U_L8R]

3. What a douchy republican thing to say

Such despicable dipshits.

[turbinetree]

4. Hey FUCKHEAD with a capital F.....................dod you know they went to the office

at the border and they got ratfucked and were told NO, asshole......................they went through the proper channels and your fascist asshole that is now over at the G20 telling the other asshole, "Don't meddle in our election" like it was some fucking joke, and now that people are dying and drowning on the border because your sick fucking mind and his in both of your heads thinks everything is a joke.................

FUCKYOU dickwad.....................

[awesomerwb1]

5. Oh he knows

They are all just callous, racist motherf*ckers.

[Hotler]

7. a.k.a. republicans. nt

[Eustace is Useful]

6. Another POS

And I don't mean Parent Over Shoulder!

[Historic NY]

8. The father had been waiting.

[Historic NY]

9. They are being 'victimized' twice the travel here and the policy of Trump

that slows asylum to a trickle. Its his purpose driven policy. Its against the US Law for asylum, even those US Government employee's responsible for reviewing the claims say its 'immoral and illegal'. Imagine you get here and are sent back to the end of the line into a country (Mexico) you don't want to be.

[McKim]

10. Many May Not Realize

Many may not realize that many people from the Global South do not know how to swim. So crossing the Rio Grande is fraught with danger. The current was swift for sure. Swimming lessons are a priviledge that many around the globe do not partake of. In Migrant Education summer programs we always included swimming lessons for this reason.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. Ken Cuccinelli is an asshole

Just like his boss.

[BadGimp]

12. Technically he's right...

But what a Souless M*$^#rFu&$%r!!

[Jose Garcia]

13. NPR reported that they were not fleeing danger, the were economic migrants

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/27/736716174/the-story-behind-that-photo-of-a-father-and-daughter-on-the-banks-of-the-rio-gra