The Death of Another Child in the Custody of the United States.
The current caretakers of the Federal Government are setting records. More children have died in the custody of the United States at the border on their watch in a month, than died in the custody of the United States in all the years before taken all together. Ever.
Most recently, an eight-year-old boy in Federal custody at the border died on Christmas Day. See Laura King, An 8-Year-Old Guatemalan Child Dies in U.S. Custody on Christmas Day After Being Treated For a Cold, Los Angeles Times Online December 25, 2018.
A seven-year-old girl died in Federal custody at the border a week ago. See The U.S. Border is a Dangerous Place. Not by Mistake, Claims and Bad Faith Law Blog December 18, 2018. This is a postscript to that earlier death of a child in the custody of the United States.
See also the article posted on Claims and Issues Blog, ANOTHER CHILD DIES IN FEDERAL CUSTODY AT THE BORDER: How Many Deaths Will It Take Till We Know That Too Many Children Have Died?, posing a few of the questions that Members of Congress, and reporters, and you and I should be asking now. The ultimate questions posed in the article are these:
If they do not gain entry to these places, then the answer to the next question is pretty clear: Is the death of children the latest anti-immigrant policy?
And if the answer to that question is "yes," then what in the name of Christmas are you going to do?
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