7-year-old migrant girl taken into Border Patrol custody dies of dehydration, exhaustion

dont think the despicable trump and his family care.

What about food? Is sadism requirement for these agents?

unvetted contractors.

This would not have happened if the child had stayed with the parent.

Sounds to me like the ICE guys are really tough. Especially to the kids.

Some folks up and down that chain need to be ousted. GDamit, pay attention to the kids.

You treat the children as if they are your own.

A bed, water and food for a little girl. Is it that hard?

them.

They treat stray dogs and cats better.

I disagree with you in the strongest terms on this. The article says the family spent days in the Mexican desert without provisions and basically went looking for US Border patrol once they got to the border. I've not seen any reporting that says the Border Patrol was negligent toward the medical situation for this family. Whether or not more could be done will be determined, and it should, however,

The entire situation that causes a family to walk 1000 + miles, put themselves in the hands of smugglers, drug runners, the deadly conditions of days on foot in the desert etc has existed far longer than that racist pig that sits in the Oval Office right now. Yes, he has done incredible harm to the ability of the US to move forward in the most humane way. All of that has to be addressed. To just yell murderer feels good, but it puts the focus on the wrong thing.

seizures. They should have been given water during that period.

This group sought out aid from Border Patrol and the article is pretty much assuming it was given. It doesn't say anything about the girl being neglected, or separated from her Dad.

I understand why the assumption is made given the images we've seen this year, but I don't see any reporting anywhere that says the girl's needs were ignored.

Thousands of migrants are taken to local hospitals every year.

I don't know why this girl wasn't but some individual who was in charge of supervising their care dropped the ball.

So will his children, the criminals in his cabinet and the shameful crooks in his orbit. How can they be so inhuman?

The people charged with her care -- CBP or otherwise -- need to be named and fired.

I don't believe in a God but I do believe in karma and karma is going to kick our asses.

So get off your ass and fix it

If we build a prison for the Trumps, I bet Mexico would chip in for the perimeter wall.

I wonder how this problem can be solved?

I am an expat who has lived in the Dominican Republic illegally for the last 10 years. I live here because I am a retired person who has to live on an income of $4,000 per month. I can live like a king here compared to New York City. I have been married to a Dominican woman for the last eight years and all she wants is to move to the United States with her three children. She has no idea how difficult life would be on my income. But she is not alone, everyone in her family and all her friends want to know why she does not move to the US. They all think the streets are paved with gold in the US. This is the only reason my wife and I ever argue. We have a good life here, better than most people, and far better then we could live in the USA.

I would guess that all of the immigrants share the same view as my wife and her friends. It is a dream that does not reflect reality. And on occasion, it will lead to a tragedy such as this.

and is not drinking water you put her into bed with IV's.

I'm guessing this is the case at most international borders. No country has funding to have doctor's sitting around idly along thousands of miles of border.

It would be something to say when we remember her. nt

oblivious to his cruelty while squandering trillions at our expense

Not sure this one is going to come back on the Border Patrol.

Her having seizures within hours of going into custody is far more likely to do with going days without food or water than anything the Border Patrol did in a span of just a few hours.

And for as much as people hate the Border Patrol, these are civil servants people, just like any other government employee. Normally we worship civil servants.

Or a meal?

Really?

I wonder what was communicated, or if it even could be given the language barrier. I also wonder how much training these folks have beyond, you know, patrolling. Are they trained to and expected to recognize medical emergencies, provide medical care, etc? That would seem odd for someone who is simply watching to make sure people don't cross a border. I doubt that's typical regardless of which border we're talking about.

Including recognizing when people were dehydrated, suffering from heat stroke or otherwise in shock. Dehydration is not too hard to recognize when you actually are looking at a person suffering from it.
As a contractor when I was working shipyards as a manager, I was expected to have enough training to recognize when people were actually sick or injured, so I could send them home and save the company money or liability.

The beat cops at local police departments are given the same basic type of first aid training we were given in the military.

Rule of thumb for most policing agencies is that if you're going to be out on patrol, basic first aid is something you have to know, even if just for yourself or your partner. And if it's a requirement, the Feds re-enforce this sort of training every two/three years, so even just recognizing shock or dehydration is not something your average ICE agent or border patrol agent would be clueless about.

It's pretty obvious they picked these people up, put them in holding, and left them there for processing whenever they felt like it - an 8 hour wait, even if they are processing 160 or so people, is pretty slack and definitely there's some liability issues if family members want to sue for mistreatment.

If that's standard intake procedure for the Border Patrol now, it's far worse than the procedure for most county lock-ups; they at least have medical staff on standby and call in for help if there's too many at intake to handle. The Border Patrol just didn't care, and it shows.

A seven year old girl meant nothing to them.

Haele

And on the hands of the "pro-life" Evangelicals who sit in smug silence as innocent children die under their leader.

Make it stop! This administration is making America look like MONSTERS!

Per a story on CNN, the little girl's father has "no complaints" about how he and his daughter were treated, nor about how CBP responded when her condition deteriorated. So it doesn't sound at all like they just stood there and watched her die because they were sadistic, nor is there any indication that they refused her food or water.

But of course, people just assumed a narrative that fit what they already believed, rather than waiting for the facts to come to light. It appears that this was a tragic incident that couldn't be prevented, despite those involved doing their best to save her.