I’ve seen more than one person write that she was already starving and dehydrated when ICE took her into custody, but how is it that ICE took this badly sick child into their custody and immediately didn’t get her the help she needed? Immediately upon taking her into custody, she became their charge, and they should have assessed her health and got her the help she needed immediately. The fact that they didn’t, shows profound negligence. Was this negligence because they do not have adequate in-take procedures in place, is it because they have too many people incarcerated to tend to their needs, is it because they just don’t care about these vulnerable people? Whatever the case, there is no shifting the blame; when they chose to take her into custody, she immediately became their responsibility and yet it was eight hours before anyone tried to help this child. ICE is an abomination, and so are any who choose to work for it.
This. By their own account, she was in their custody for 8 hours before the seizures started. The signs of dehydration and starvation are not hard to spot. Either she was never examined by a nurse or doctor, or whoever did examine her didn’t realize she needed treatment (or didn’t care). At any rate, as porticos says, once someone is in your custody they become your responsibility–because at that point nobody else has the ability to care for them.
In my earliest posts about the family separation debacle I predicted that this administration’s “policies” would lead to the deaths of children in their custody. I hoped I would be wrong about that. But I was not, because this kind of death is an entirely forseeable result of this administration’s “immigration policy.” And that is one of many reasons why this administration’s “policies” are abhorrent, intolerable, and atrocious.
7-year-old migrant girl taken into Border Patrol custody dies of dehydration, exhaustion
Hearseeno 