The sheer brutality of the Trump administration’s immigration policies have once again reared it’s ugly head, as another migrant child is confirmed dead. CBS News is reporting that a sixth child—that we know of—has died in government custody.
The federal agency that oversees the care of unaccompanied migrant children acknowledged to CBS News on Wednesday that a 10-year-old girl from El Salvador died in its custody on Sept. 29, 2018. The child's death had not been previously reported.
And the self-described ‘most transparent’ administration in history did not report this child’s death for eight months. Let that sink in and then you have to consider the very real possibility that this Trump led government is hiding even more from the American people.
This tragedy comes on the heels of a fifth of migrant child that died in custody. Children are dying, because Trump wants to use immigrants to gin up his base. Disgusting.
A 16-year-old boy from Guatemala who survived the thousand-mile journey to the U.S. border died Monday in U.S. custody.
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is calling for a federal investigation after the fifth migrant child since December died after arriving at the U.S. border.
MSNBC’s Jacob Soboroff reports a shocking confirmation from U.S. Customs and Border Protection:
“This young man is the fifth minor to die in the U.S. government’s custody since December—after what CBP had said was 10-years without a child dying in their custody.”
One child is too may, but these brutal immigration policies and unsafe gulags—the Trump administration created—are literally killing migrant children at levels we’ve never seen before. I don’t care who you are, but if these senseless deaths don’t rock you to your core—you can’t be human.
This abomination known as the Trump administration sickens me. I feel so empty. I grieve for these children and their families. That’s six children now—like yours or mine that are dead. How many more deaths will we learn about in the future? We are dealing with monsters in our government who are trying to hide their evil acts.