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Andrea Mitchell: Trump Admin 'Blaming the Victim' After Child of Illegal Dies
Newsbusters.org ^ | December 14, 2018 | Brad Wilmouth

Posted on 12/14/2018 4:56:49 PM PST by Kaslin

On Friday's Andrea Mitchell Reports, host Mitchell asserted that Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was "blaming the victim" when she correctly warned that it is very dangerous to cross the desert illegally in reaction to recent news of a child dying of dehydration after her father crossed the desert illegally from Mexico.

Correspondent Jacob Soboroff suggested that the Trump administration is "forcing" illegals to cross under dangerous circumstances through the desert because of long wait times at legal ports of entry. And, in the segment that lasted eight minutes, no one got around to clarifying that the number of detainees who die in the custody of Border Patrol each year is about the same as it was during the Obama administration.

Mitchell: Trump Admin 'Blaming the Victim' After Child of Illegal Dies

At 12:46 p.m. Eastern, after recalling that the girl died in Border Patrol custody after her father reportedly took her through the desert, depriving her of food and water for days, Mitchell then brought aboard Soboroff who soon complained:

It's a terrible situation, Andrea, but it's not one, I hate to say, that is all that surprising given the conditions that migrants are crossing in these days because of the enforcement strategy by the Trump administration and, critics would say, largely forcing people to cross in the desert, having a hard time presenting in ports of entry.

He soon noted that "deaths in the desert are going up," as he related that some blame the Trump administration's "deterrent-type policy."

A bit later, right-leaning never Trump MSNBC contributor Charlie Sykes declared that President Donald Trump is "demagoguing" a "humanitarian crisis" on the border, and complained about "cruelty."

"We have the juxtapositon of the cruelty and the human loss versus the crude distortion that we're getting from the White House. We're seeing this week the intersection of the corruption and cruelty of this administration," Sykes stated.

Mitchell soon showed a clip of Secretary Nielsen from the same day's Fox and Friends in which she warned against the dangers of illegal immigrants crossing through the desert. In reaction, Mitchell bristled: "That sounds to me like blaming the victim."

Former Democratic Congressman Steve Israel not surprisingly then agreed with her negative critique of Nielsen as he responded.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: andreamitchell; charliesykes; immigration; jacobsoboroff; mexico; nbdaily; pmsnbc
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To: Kaslin

41 posted on 12/14/2018 6:57:03 PM PST by gaijin
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To: gaijin

‘Imperial Trump Walkers’!


42 posted on 12/14/2018 7:28:36 PM PST by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy Mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: Kaslin

Her father killed her!


43 posted on 12/14/2018 8:19:21 PM PST by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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To: Kaslin

Andrea Mitchell is a psycho Leftist turd posing as a journalist.

One day her husband is going to kill her, mark my words. Sane people can only take so much leftist crap before reacting to it.

In the future, when you hear her voice, it will be saying “Andrea Mitchell, reporting from hell” and her lead story will be, “Hell is hot and Trump’s carbon dioxide/climate change denials are to blame”.


44 posted on 12/14/2018 10:29:14 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Kaslin

The parents are responsible for their children. Does Andrea Mitchell think these foreign nationals are too stupid to take care of their own children?

Personally, I think if we had our border wall it would SAVE LIVES! It would protect our own children but also that of these foreigners.

Irresponsible parents would not make the dangerous trip if the wall was across our southern border!

So the question is, what is WRONG with the leaders in our CONGRESS? Fund the wall!


45 posted on 12/14/2018 10:58:33 PM PST by Lopeover (Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.)
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To: Don W

“Just because Ahn-dreaah?”

Yup. Same dried up hate-filled liberal witch as she was a decade ago.


46 posted on 12/14/2018 11:05:51 PM PST by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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To: Kaslin

They’re not blaming the child. They’re blaming the dad, the media, the Democrats and the cartels


47 posted on 12/15/2018 3:55:41 AM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: Kaslin

...it is very dangerous to cross the desert illegally in reaction to recent news of a child dying of dehydration...

CHOICE is BAD!!!


Choice is GOOD!!!


48 posted on 12/15/2018 5:11:00 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Mears

So is 105° air temperature!


49 posted on 12/15/2018 5:12:27 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: bobby.223

I almost missed them!


50 posted on 12/15/2018 5:15:24 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Kaslin

Child purportedly had liver disease, which diminishes capacity to eat and drink.

Parents were neglectful.

dead child is a political football.

Alinsky Tactics being used.

Do not be defensive, just point out that parents placed ill child at risk and now are blame-shifting to hit the judicial jackpot.


51 posted on 12/15/2018 5:32:20 AM PST by Chickensoup (Never count on anyone, ever.)
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To: xzins
The child is not to blame. The entire blame has to go to the father who did let the child dehydrate because he didn't give her anything to drink and he let her starve to death, because he did not give her anything to eat.

The Media and the demonrats are ignorant because they don't realize that. The cartels are just plain evil

52 posted on 12/15/2018 6:18:39 AM PST by Kaslin (That would)
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To: Nateman

Yup.

Andrea Mitchell helps get rats elected;
rats give illimmigrants lots of freebies and free passes;
so, illimigrants flood our border;
therefore, Andrea Mitchell is responsible for that little girl’s death.


53 posted on 12/15/2018 6:34:37 AM PST by polymuser (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: Kaslin

News Flash: If they had not passed under that fence and returned to their rightful home, they would probably still be alive, AndreaIdiot! It is their fault!!


54 posted on 12/15/2018 7:41:55 AM PST by cranked
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

I don’t think that will ever happen. Her husband is Alan Greenspan, former head of the Fed.


55 posted on 12/15/2018 9:57:57 AM PST by Guardian Sebastian (God Bless President Trump and Keep Him Safe)
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To: Kaslin

the dead kid is a good deterrant to all mothers

the mother must be jailed for felony child abuse

If she is subject to American law, then she is subject to American law


56 posted on 12/15/2018 10:06:48 AM PST by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Invade Honduras. Provide a military government)
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To: bert

American ‘mothers’ can legally kill their unborn children.
And they do; at a rate of 3,300 a day.

What was that about child abuse again?


57 posted on 12/15/2018 1:38:16 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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