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This child died next to a toilet, alone, in a Border Patrol facility.
There should have been high-level firings over this, but there were none. Not even a statement of remorse from the president, because he felt none.
We are a disgrace.
There should have been high-level firings over this, but there were none. Not even a statement of remorse from the president, because he felt none.
We are a disgrace.
“A veteran forensic pathologist who reviewed Hernandez’s autopsy, as well as the three other autopsies available for migrant children who died in custody, said she was alarmed at the conditions the children were kept in.”
“All of the children who’ve died since December were initially taken into custody by agents from the El Paso and Rio Grande Valley sectors of the Border Patrol. Before December, no child had died in Border Patrol custody in a decade.”
A DECADE.
A DECADE.
“Jakelin Caal Maquin, 7, died Dec. 8 in an El Paso hospital, a day after she and her father crossed the border in New Mexico. An autopsy report showed she died of a bacterial infection that spread to her bloodstream and caused multiple organ failure.”
Remember Jakelin.
Remember Jakelin.
“Felipe Gomez Alonzo, 8, died on Christmas Eve in a hospital in Alamogordo, New Mexico, six days after he and his father crossed into the United States near El Paso. He died of influenza B and bacterial infection, according to an autopsy report.”
Remember Felipe.
Remember Felipe.
“Juan DeLeon Gutierrez, 16, died April 30 in Corpus Christi. He crossed the border in the El Paso area without parent or guardian. He fell ill at an ORR shelter in Brownsville and was treated for several days at a Corpus Christi hospital before he died.”
Remember Juan.
Remember Juan.
“Wilmer Josue Ramirez Vasquez, 2½, died May 14 after several weeks in an El Paso hospital. He crossed with his mother in El Paso. Wilmer died of ‘multiple intestinal and respiratory infectious diseases,’ including influenza A, according to an autopsy report.”
Remember Wilmer.
Remember Wilmer.
19-month-old Mariee died last May, after becoming sick in ICE custody. Her mom testified to Congress that she watched her lose two pounds from vomiting. When she came limp, ICE just released them.
Remember Mariee. dailykos.com/story/2019/7/1…
Remember Mariee. dailykos.com/story/2019/7/1…
10-year-old Darlyn Cristabel Cordova-Valle died on September 29 in US custody, and for eight months, the Trump administration kept her death a secret.
Remember Darlyn. dailykos.com/stories/2019/5…
Remember Darlyn. dailykos.com/stories/2019/5…
Remember Mariee.
Remember Jakelin.
Remember Carlos.
Remember Felipe.
Remember Juan.
Remember Wilmer.
Remember Darlyn.
Remember Jakelin.
Remember Carlos.
Remember Felipe.
Remember Juan.
Remember Wilmer.
Remember Darlyn.
But when we try to talk about gun deaths you accuse us of politicizing things or when we say everyone deserves healthcare you call us socialists. Make up your fucking minds, you're annoying.
16-year-old Carlos, in Border Patrol custody, “is seen lying on the floor, vomiting on the floor, and walks over to the commode, where he sits and later lies back and expires.” dailykos.com/stories/2019/7…
Carlos “was also never taken to a hospital despite the apparent seriousness of his illness and the fact that the flu has claimed the lives of two other Guatemalan children in Border Patrol custody in the last six months.”
“A veteran forensic pathologist who reviewed Hernandez’s autopsy, as well as the three other autopsies available for migrant children who died in custody, said she was alarmed at the conditions the children were kept in.”
