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TygrBright

(20,763 posts) Tue Dec 25, 2018, 02:34 PM Dec 2018

US says 8-year-old Guatemalan boy has died in custody

Source: Miami Herald

EL PASO, TEXAS -U.S. immigration authorities say an 8-year-old boy from Guatemala has died in government custody, the second immigrant child to die in detention this month.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection say the boy died shortly after midnight Tuesday.

CBP says the boy showed "signs of potential illness" Monday and was taken with his father to a hospital in Alamogordo, New Mexico. There, CBP says, he was diagnosed with a cold and a fever. He was given medications and released Monday afternoon.

The agency says the boy was returned to the hospital Monday evening with nausea and vomiting. He died just hours later.

Read more: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article223548425.html

That's the whole article, right there.

Merry Fucking Christmas.

sadly,
Bright

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US says 8-year-old Guatemalan boy has died in custody (Original Post) TygrBright Dec 2018 OP

Trump strikes again Yosemito Dec 2018 #1

We, the people, must stop this now! sinkingfeeling Dec 2018 #2

WTF JDC Dec 2018 #3

"cuts like a knife".... hlthe2b Dec 2018 #4

Doesn't seem to quit - these misfits - running U.S. into the ground laserhaas Dec 2018 #5

Poor little boy. bronxiteforever Dec 2018 #6

"Signs of POTENTIAL illness?" DFW Dec 2018 #7

What if ..., James48 Dec 2018 #8

All those in this administration who are responsible for this policy need to be held responsible. pdsimdars Dec 2018 #9

Second child murdered shenmue Dec 2018 #10

Jesus wept. Reader Rabbit Dec 2018 #11

That's such a tragedy ZeroSomeBrains Dec 2018 #12

Us Senator and Us Representative who support Trump Smackdown2019 Dec 2018 #13

God, this made me mad all over again. Ilsa Dec 2018 #14

Orange Monster djacq Dec 2018 #15

Sick and evil workinclasszero Dec 2018 #16

Churchill via Bill Kristol's tweet. irisblue Dec 2018 #17

Kick for exposure red dog 1 Dec 2018 #18

Trump called these people animals Johnny2X2X Dec 2018 #19

Trump is violating international law. SunSeeker Dec 2018 #20

What if he died of flu? Yosemito Dec 2018 #21

The boy had a 103 degree tempurature. It was not just a "cold." SunSeeker Dec 2018 #22

Yosemito

(648 posts)

1. Trump strikes again

Reply to TygrBright (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 02:36 PM

Dec 2018

His policy is killing children.
He has admitted that he wants to teach parents a lesson. The lack of medical preparedness is no coincidence.

sinkingfeeling

(51,469 posts)

2. We, the people, must stop this now!

Reply to TygrBright (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 02:40 PM

Dec 2018

JDC

(10,130 posts)

3. WTF

Reply to TygrBright (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 02:51 PM

Dec 2018

Insanity

hlthe2b

(102,328 posts)

4. "cuts like a knife"....

Reply to TygrBright (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 03:06 PM

Dec 2018

Not my country... not anymore...

laserhaas

(7,805 posts)

5. Doesn't seem to quit - these misfits - running U.S. into the ground

Reply to TygrBright (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 03:08 PM

Dec 2018

Link to tweet

bronxiteforever

(9,287 posts)

6. Poor little boy.

Reply to TygrBright (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 03:09 PM

Dec 2018

DFW

(54,426 posts)

7. "Signs of POTENTIAL illness?"

Reply to TygrBright (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 03:12 PM

Dec 2018

What does CBP call a gunshot wound, a "sign of potential perforation?"

James48

(4,437 posts)

8. What if ...,

Reply to TygrBright (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 03:20 PM

Dec 2018

There was no room at the inn?

And the child, and his parents, had to sleep in a manger?

No- wait! He was thrown into a cage!

pdsimdars

(6,007 posts)

9. All those in this administration who are responsible for this policy need to be held responsible.

Reply to TygrBright (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 03:29 PM

Dec 2018

shenmue

(38,506 posts)

10. Second child murdered

Reply to TygrBright (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 03:57 PM

Dec 2018

Reader Rabbit

(2,624 posts)

11. Jesus wept.

Reply to TygrBright (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 03:59 PM

Dec 2018

ZeroSomeBrains

(638 posts)

12. That's such a tragedy

Reply to TygrBright (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 04:06 PM

Dec 2018

Smackdown2019

(1,190 posts)

13. Us Senator and Us Representative who support Trump

Reply to TygrBright (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 04:10 PM

Dec 2018

They should be exposed as Child Killers! This is sickening that OUR OWN country is being labeled as child killers. Yet this administration is PROUD of it. They all should be removed!

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)

14. God, this made me mad all over again.

Reply to TygrBright (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 04:17 PM

Dec 2018

Why couldn't the hospital keep the child a day longer, to make sure he was improving on his medicine and getting it according to regimen? The family is basically homeless, but they are expected to buy the drugs and administer them on time. No sweat, right?

djacq

(1,634 posts)

15. Orange Monster

Reply to TygrBright (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 04:38 PM

Dec 2018

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)

16. Sick and evil

Reply to TygrBright (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 04:39 PM

Dec 2018

Maybe some GOP pro life $$$ prosperity preacher can explain to us why it’s good to cage innocent children and allow them to die in custody.

Trump’s gestapo is doing the job he sent them to do in his gulag all to well lately.

irisblue

(33,018 posts)

17. Churchill via Bill Kristol's tweet.

Reply to TygrBright (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 04:42 PM

Dec 2018

( bothers me that Kristol is right, but it is so)

Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) Tweeted:
“Let the children have their night of fun and laughter....Let us grown-ups [be] resolved that, by our sacrifice and daring, these same children shall not be robbed of their inheritance or denied their right to live in a free and decent world.”
— Churchill, Christmas Eve, 1941

Link to tweet

red dog 1

(27,844 posts)

18. Kick for exposure

Reply to TygrBright (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 05:00 PM

Dec 2018

Last edited Tue Dec 25, 2018, 05:37 PM - Edit history (2)

That boy's death is YOUR fault, Mr. President.
His blood is on YOUR tiny hands!

Johnny2X2X

(19,095 posts)

19. Trump called these people animals

Reply to TygrBright (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 05:05 PM

Dec 2018

He called immigrants animals more than once. Ans more than just in reference to gang members. Said we have to get really tough.

These deaths are the result of Trump's policies and rhetoric. He wants stuff like this to happen, and so do his supporters.

Mistreatment of immigrants also happened under Obama, but the difference is the leader of the country wasn't using rhetoric that encourages mistreatment.

SunSeeker

(51,630 posts)

20. Trump is violating international law.

Reply to TygrBright (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 09:53 PM

Dec 2018

Felipe Gonzalez, the United Nations special rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, said Monday that the U.S. government’s detention of children due to their immigration status violated international law.

https://ktla.com/2018/12/25/8-year-old-guatemalan-boy-has-died-in-u-s-custody-authorities/

Yosemito

(648 posts)

21. What if he died of flu?

Reply to TygrBright (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 11:10 PM

Dec 2018

Overcrowded facilities for children are primed for disease spreading and dehydration.
Authorities would probably rather call it a "cold".
I would demand an autopsy.

SunSeeker

(51,630 posts)

22. The boy had a 103 degree tempurature. It was not just a "cold."

Reply to Yosemito (Reply #21)

Wed Dec 26, 2018, 02:57 AM

Dec 2018

The boy was diagnosed with a common cold and had a fever of 103 degrees at 1:20 p.m. on Christmas Eve, the release states. He was observed for 90 minutes before being released from the emergency room in the afternoon of Dec. 24 with amoxicillin and ibuprofen prescriptions.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/child-dies-customs-border-patrol/story?id=60011900

And despite that high temperature, they released him from the ER and put him back into the "Ice Box" freezing torture chamber of a detention room.

Like the 7 year old girl that died, he started vomiting shortly thereafter and lost consciousness...and never regained it.

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