At least six migrant children have died while in U.S. custody during the last eight months. CBS News is reporting that officials from the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are just now admitting that a 10-year-old girl from El Salvador died in September 2018:
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.
She was the first of six migrant children to die in U.S. custody — or soon after being released — in the past eight months.
Since this unnamed child’s death, which Trump administration officials deliberately concealed from the American public, the deaths of five children from Guatemala have been reported.
Absolutely no one should be surprised that those monsters in the Trump administration had previously lied when asked direct questions regarding deaths of migrant children while in federal custody:
In an interview with CBS News Wednesday, Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, accused the administration of concealing the girl's death.
"I have not seen any indication that the Trump administration disclosed the death of this young girl to the public or even to Congress," Castro said. "And if that's the case, they covered up her death for eight months, even though we were actively asking the question about whether any child had died or been seriously injured. We began asking that question last fall."
San Antonio natives Joaquin Castro and Julián Castro are using their platforms to indict the callous indifference of Trump’s “morally bankrupt administration” to this “epidemic of death:”
I’ll emphasize here that that’s six children that we know of.
Julián Castro tweeted:
A ten-year-old child died in government custody and a morally bankrupt administration hid it from the public for months. Let that sink in.
And El Paso native Beto O’Rourke is again calling out Trump and his administration for continuing to “inflict suffering, death, and irreversible trauma with the most inhumane and un-American immigration policies … at the expense of our humanity….’
Joaquin, Julián, and Beto speak for me and for so many other Texans who are horrified by the suffering and deaths of far too many migrant children and parents in our state.
Please reach out to Democratic politicians and candidates in your state and ask them to do everything in their power to fight against Trump and his administration’s monstrous immigration policies and practices.