EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is visiting the Texas border city where an 8-year-old Guatemalan boy was detained with his father and later died in government custody .
DHS spokeswoman Katie Waldman said Nielsen is heading to El Paso on Friday. Waldman says Nielsen will tour multiple stations and substations operated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Nielsen is also scheduled to meet with emergency medical technicians and medical professionals, as well as local officials.
Nielsen will go to Yuma, Arizona, on Saturday.
The trip comes four days after the death of 8-year-old Felipe Gomez Alonzo. Felipe was the second Guatemalan child to die in CBP’s custody in three weeks.
Nielsen has called the death “deeply concerning and heartbreaking” and requested medical help from other government agencies.
She should let her own children visit, stay awhile, enjoy the amenities, the view, the horror…
Morale boosting: "Nice work, Guys ! "
OTOH, statistically something like this going to happen, but why bring ICE into the situation to explain dead children in the first place ?
Frau Nielsen visiting where the U.S.’s negligence helped kill a small child is like a bank robber going to see the place he robbed.
I somehow thought she didn’t have children . . . . contemplating her in the role of mother makes me even more horrified. I hope they pelted her with tomatoes.
Nine gets you ten they sent Felipe with his illness diagnosed as a heavy cold back in amongst the other families. It turned out to be flu.
Texas fronted money for flu vaccines back in June. I do not know what percentage of the children currently there have been vaccinated. Nor do I know of those vaccinations were for the strain which killed Felipe.