Posted on 12/17/2018 10:44:56 AM PST by Kaslin
Last week, politicians and members of the media expressed outrage over the tragic death of a seven-year-old girl who died shortly after illegally crossing the US border with her father. The details of her passing are heart-wrenching. Border hawks blamed her parent for putting her life at risk by bringing her on the dangerous journey, while critics of the president's approach to immigration policy held up the incident as an example of the administration's inhumanity and callousness. Many in the press certainly had their preferred framing:
The 7-year-old was excited about a new life in the U.S. Maybe she would get her first toy or learn to read.
Instead, she died in Border Patrol custody. https://t.co/lAtGoWcnEk— IndyStar (@indystar) December 16, 2018
This is getting tiring. The clear implication here is that DHS did something wrong, but there is ZERO evidence of that so far. This is a real tragedy, but the little girl hadn’t eaten or drank anything for several days before she was taken into CBP custody. https://t.co/EQPzKP26oY— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) December 15, 2018
Twitter's 'AG Conservative' (who is worth a follow) noted that in story after story, headline after headline, wrongdoing by US officials was at least implied. In truth, the young girl had been severely deprived of sustenance for days prior to being taken into custody in a remote area, at which point American border patrol officers and support staff attempted to save her life. After being manually revived twice, she was transported by air to a hospital, where she died. Those verifiable facts did not stop a former press secretary for Bernie Sanders from spreading patently false information, which went viral -- and was shared by newly-minted leftist icon Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:
And Bernie Sanders' former Press Secretary deleted the tweet after it was shared by tens of thousands of people. No correction posted. Here was the original tweet. pic.twitter.com/tUqLs5xBu1— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) December 15, 2018
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer also piled on, demanding the Trump administration -- specifically Sec. Nielsen and the Department of Homeland Security -- be "held accountable" for the death. Why? There is no evidence whatsoever that US officials did a single thing wrong, as has now been confirmed by the girl's own father -- sadly, the man most responsible for what happened:
Guatemalan Consul Tekandi Paniagua tells CNN’s @edlavaCNN he met extensively with the father of 7-year-old Jakelin Caal Maquin Friday night in El Paso. Paniagua says the father of Jakelin has “no complaints about how Border Patrol agents treated him and his daughter.” 1/— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 15, 2018
3/ The father, per the consul, confirmed the DHS timeline that Jakelin did not show any signs of distress until about 5am when they were placed on the bus to ride from the border checkpoint to the border patrol station 95 miles away.— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 15, 2018
Eager to paint the Trump administration as heartless, far too many political liberals, including elected officials and journalists, rushed to smear American officials based on -- at best -- incomplete information. How many are correcting the record and apologizing to the people they unjustly maligned, now that their drive-by attack has been exposed as deeply misleading? This poor little girl's horrific demise was deemed to be ideologically valuable, so cheap partisan points were scored. All the while, public trust in important institutions was eroded further, including both America's border security apparatus and the profession of journalism. America has an acute unreliable narrator problem, and far too often, the media's insatiable appetite for Trump bashing induces reckless laziness or agenda-driven shortcuts, which in turn embolden and partially vindicate the president's anti-press attacks. This dysfunctional spiral continues apace, and neither side sees itself as the problem. While we're on this general subject, I'll leave you with this:
A lesson in fake news: Here’s how a transcription error, some careless reporting, and the desire to create an anti-Trump narrative led @NBCNews to repeatedly misquote and misrepresent @BillCassidy.
Who would have thunk?
Exactly as Bill Cassidy said “A lesson in Fake News.”
I read that her father now has a lawyer. Imagine that.
And Schumer does not give a damn about the little girl, just how he can exploit the tragedy ... with his LIE. Schumer is an evil dead soul ...
If he does, it was hoisted on him by the Left.
Next time something like this happens, the lefty lawyers will descend on the family faster. Maybe they’ll encounter an honorable man, maybe not.
Follow the money
He is most likely going to face child abuse charges once the autopsy is completed. Maybe that is why he needs a lawyer.
News this morning is that he’s lawyered-up.
He needs a lawyer. He is now in the USA and can be tried on felony child abuse charges.
The fathers premeditated negligence is the direct cause of the death.
If the Border Patrol hadn't found them, the girl would have died in the desert, and the father would have buried her in a shallow grave.
I live in the most conservative district in the state. I do not agree with your statement
Case in point.
In the 1st district congressional primary there were several running. At least two were mainstream Republicans. They split the vote and by a maricle. Davis, the conservativereceived the nomination and the office.
Two years later, he was primaried out by Phil Roe, one of the mainstream Republicans who won by being Republican
The Left is to blame for this little girl’s death. They promote open borders, they ‘spread the wealth’ with attractive benefits to those who come here illegally - hell, wasn’t it the Obama administration that had advertising in Mexico on how to obtain benefits?
The left is evil, even in their alleged altruism.
She was a sacrificial pawn to push a narrative. The commies should rot in hell.
News this morning is that he’s lawyered-up.To control the narrative.
The Left loves them some martyrs.
Control of the mass media is a huge advantage in shaping the message. How many people will ever see the Townhall report vs, the screaming heads on the TV or the major print newspapers?
Why do I suspect that the family intentionally caused a medical crisis for the little girl as a way to game the system and gain entry into the US?
Bump
How many kids were sacrificed for the Mob that no one knows of?
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