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.
‘Imperial Trump Walkers’!
Her father killed her!
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”.
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!
“Just because Ahn-dreaah?”
Yup. Same dried up hate-filled liberal witch as she was a decade ago.
They’re not blaming the child. They’re blaming the dad, the media, the Democrats and the cartels
...it is very dangerous to cross the desert illegally in reaction to recent news of a child dying of dehydration...
So is 105° air temperature!
I almost missed them!
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.
The Media and the demonrats are ignorant because they don't realize that. The cartels are just plain evil
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.
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!!
I don’t think that will ever happen. Her husband is Alan Greenspan, former head of the Fed.
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
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?
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