On Tuesday, a 16-year-old boy was found dead at a checkpoint on the U.S.-Mexico border, the fifth underage immigrant to die in American custody since December. His cause of death is yet unknown.
According to CNN, the unnamed teenager follows an unidentified 2-year old, 16-year-old Juan de León Guttiérez, 8-year-old Felipe Gomez Alonzo and 7-year-old Jakelin Caal Maquin.
Fifth minor in US custody dies at southern border pic.twitter.com/kBCi7LoZrY
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) May 20, 2019
The most recent tragedy comes at a time when facilities at the border are being overwhelmed by the number of immigrants, many of them families, crossing over.
Sickening. Just…sickening.
I am sure the head of DHS will point out that the kid would have ended up being a member of MS-13 anyway.
I’m sure Kate Riga did not intend to blame the immigrants, so I’ll just take this as really bad writing.
And these are likely just the ones we’re actually hearing about…
If only they had been fetuses . . .