DHS Confirms 8-Yr-Old Migrant Boy Died In Custody AFTER Father Refused Treatment
Whenever a child dies, whatever the circumstances, it’s sad.
It’s even sadder when a political party uses a child’s death to advance their own agenda.
For example, a second migrant child has died at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The left is blaming President Trump and his administration for the deaths, despite knowing (or caring about) the facts.
One tweet sums up the situation very well:
Parents take a little child & walk for hundreds of miles for weeks in the cold/heat. by the time they arrive to the border the poor child is in a bad condition, when agents meet that child they rush him to the hospital where he unfortunately dies.
And you are blaming the agents? https://t.co/ayC9gzR3xk
— Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) December 26, 2018
The father of the second child to die at the border, an 8-year-old boy, refused further medical treatment while in U.S. custody.
That’s something the left won’t tell you.
From Daily Wire:
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials said on Wednesday that the 8-year-old Guatemalan boy who died in U.S. custody this week did so after his alleged father declined additional medical treatment.
The boy, Felipe Gomez Alonzo, was initially taken to the hospital after CBP agents noticed that he was sick and was “diagnosed with the common cold, given prescription medications and discharged,” ABC St. Louis reported.
A seven-year-old girl was the first child to die at the border.
https://twitter.com/jacobsoboroff/status/1073706103882436608?%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1073706103882436608&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftherightscoop.com%2Fno-ice-is-not-to-blame-for-tragic-death-of-7-year-old-guatemalan-girl-and-the-media-is-lying-about-it%2F
Even Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer (NY) joined in, blaming border patrol agents for the death before the facts came out.
A 7-year-old girl should not be dying of dehydration and shock in Customs and Border Protection custody.
Secretary Nielsen and @DHSgov must be held accountable for Jakelin Amei Rosmery Caal Maquin’s death. https://t.co/W1jMYJWc7Q
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) December 14, 2018
The MSM is not mentioning, though, that the girl hadn’t eaten or drank for days.
This is getting tiring. The clear implication here is that DHS did something wrong, but there is ZERO evidence of that so far. This is a real tragedy, but the little girl hadn’t eaten or drank anything for several days before she was taken into CBP custody. https://t.co/EQPzKP26oY
— AG (@AGHamilton29) December 15, 2018
You can argue that her dad had legit reasons for taking her on the dangerous journey from Guatemala and having her cross the border illegally, but that doesn’t change that it’s clear the journey is what caused her death.
— AG (@AGHamilton29) December 15, 2018
She was having seizures and had a 105 degree fever within a few hours of being in custody. She was taken into custody in a remote area. As soon as they got her to a border station w medical personnel, they got her medical treatment and airlifted her to a hospital.
— AG (@AGHamilton29) December 15, 2018
You can either blame the father for taking her on this journey or blame no one, but it’s despicable that the media is going out of their way to blame CBP when there is 0 evidence they did anything other than their jobs and try to save her life.
— AG (@AGHamilton29) December 15, 2018
I get it. The media has their narrative. They think the CBP are the bad guys for enforcing the law at the border and want every story to feed that message, but baselessly accusing them of being complicit in the death of a little girl is a new low for the media. https://t.co/4OD0TA6ElX
— AG (@AGHamilton29) December 15, 2018
Of course. And that's why there already is one that has been started, as happens every time someone dies in their custody. However, it's clearly wrong for the media to imply they are responsible without evidence of wrongdoing, and there is none so far. https://t.co/eP4n403FJ4
— AG (@AGHamilton29) December 15, 2018
What’s more is the girl’s father says border patrol could NOT have done a better job.
Talk about a narrative buster.
Guatemalan Consul Tekandi Paniagua tells CNN’s @edlavaCNN he met extensively with the father of 7-year-old Jakelin Caal Maquin Friday night in El Paso. Paniagua says the father of Jakelin has “no complaints about how Border Patrol agents treated him and his daughter.” 1/
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 15, 2018
2/ The consul says the father told him that agents did everything they possibly could to help the girl on the bus.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 15, 2018
3/ The father, per the consul, confirmed the DHS timeline that Jakelin did not show any signs of distress until about 5am when they were placed on the bus to ride from the border checkpoint to the border patrol station 95 miles away.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 15, 2018
One-third of migrants in the caravan are facing serious health issues.
From Daily Wire:
Thousands of migrants marched from Central America to the U.S. border over the last six weeks, but many of them are suffering from respiratory infections, tuberculosis, chickenpox and other serious health issues — including HIV.
Of the 6,000 migrants gathered in Tijuana just south of the U.S. border near San Diego, more than a third of them (2,267) are being treated for health-related issues, a spokesman for Tijuana’s Health Department told Fox News.
Chief Border Patrol Agent Rodney Scott appeared on CNN.
He dropped some truth bombs about the illegal migrant caravan that is attempting to make its way into America.
For example, did the left know that grown men were pushing women and children to the front and then throwing rocks at patrol agents?
How about that the migrants tore down a section of the border wall?
“What we saw over and over yesterday is that the group, the caravan as we call them, would push women and children to the front and then begin basically rocking our agents.”
Scott added, “That is correct. 42 crossed the border and were arrested. There were numerous people that actually made it across the border. We are in the process of building a new border wall. There were sections that were dilapidated sections made out of scrap metal that the military had gave us. The group breached a section of this. The group breached a couple sections of this. They actually tore down one section. They rushed across and that’s another time that they actually started assaulting our agents.”
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WATCH:
Watch the videos below and you’ll see riot cops using tear gas to push back against the horde of migrants attempting to scurrying into the states…
A group of migrants is getting ready to march towards a border crossing, they say this is a peaceful march and that they don’t want to cause any troubles #MigrantCaravan #Migration #Tijuana pic.twitter.com/VrqSV2Gohl
— Sofia Ortega (@Sofia_OA) November 25, 2018
Watching a livestream of hundreds of asylum seekers from the migrant caravan trying to cross my hometown’s Tijuana border with the US. It’s chaotic and I’m worried about a retaliatory approach by the US Government https://t.co/NP6XETLEzQ pic.twitter.com/sj3GXnejHg
— Ricardo Menéndez (@RMarchNZ) November 25, 2018
Migrants with children now scrambling up railway siding trying to reach us border thru mountain pic.twitter.com/ZeEZ0NApIx
— Emma Murphy (@emmamurphyitv) November 25, 2018
https://twitter.com/WendyFry_/status/1066789492714102790?%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1066789492714102790&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftherightscoop.com%2Fit-begins-migrants-march-on-border-riot-cops-throw-tear-gas-point-of-entry-closes-protests-on-both-sides%2F
The Mexican federal police have shut down the border into Mexico – hundreds of riot police are lined up and no incoming cars are being allowed to enter from the US into Mexico pic.twitter.com/cNY0MZktAZ
— Annie Rose Ramos (@AnnieRoseNews) November 25, 2018
Over 1,000 migrants have stormed past riot police to get to the US border through the Tijuana River #MigrantCaravan pic.twitter.com/bf2ZsLxRqq
— Annie Rose Ramos (@AnnieRoseNews) November 25, 2018
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A group of Central American migrants, mostly from Honduras, run along and try to cross the dry riverbed of the Tijuana River in an attempt to get to the El Chaparral port of entry, in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, near the US-Mexico border pic.twitter.com/0kKzt0fIsN
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) November 25, 2018
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American helicopters fly over the border. We are told Mexico and the United States have temporarily given each other permission to fly 10km into each other’s territory. #MigrantCaravan pic.twitter.com/InIfGLAG73
— The Epoch Times (@EpochTimes) November 25, 2018
Vice President Mike Pence made it clear that these caravans were paid for by leftist groups.
From Fox News:
Vice President Mike Pence descended on the southwest as part of a midterm rallying blitz, bringing with him a warning that the migrant caravan is being funded by outside, leftist groups, citing intel said to be provided by foreign partners and a phone call with a Central American leader.
Pence: “What the president of Honduras told me is that the caravan was organized by leftist organizations, political activists within Honduras, and he said it was being funded by outside groups, and even from Venezuela. So the American people, I think, see through this – they understand this is not a spontaneous caravan of vulnerable people.“
It is now being reported that of the 6,000 migrants in Tijuana at least 500 have been “identified” as “criminals.”
Fox Business host Lou Dobbs breaks it down…
WATCH:
Reporting on the caravan, Univision’s Jorge Ramos said the migrants were harmless.
During an interview with Fox News’ Martha MacCallum, hack reporter and Univision propagandist, Jorge Ramos attempted to convince her viewers that the “vast majority” of illegal aliens who are part of the illegal mob heading to the U.S. border were not “criminals” or “terrorists”. Ramos told MacCallum, “They’re not even immigants, they’re refugees”. Ramos continued, admonishing MacCallum and her viewers, demanding that we “must treat them with respect”.
There’s no doubt that Jorge is right. Most people in the caravan are harmless.
But all it takes is one to be not harmless and people end up losing their lives.
Check out a caravan marcher flashing “gang signs” behind Ramos:
https://twitter.com/PatrioticVa/status/1054511486406668289?%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1054511486406668289&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2F100percentfedup.com%2Flol-migrant-mob-member-flashes-gang-sign-as-univision-reporter-jorge-ramos-tells-fox-news-viewers-caravan-is-harmless-video%2F
H/T: Right Scoop