Report Confirms ICE Negligence Led To Deaths Of Detained Children

A recent bombshell report by Buzzfeed News revealed that internal ICE documents prove that the deaths of several detained migrants, including some children, were the direct result of the negligence of officers at the detention camps. They would give detainees the wrong medicines, ignore their pleas for help when they were sick or injured, and allowing at least one mentally ill patient to mutilate themselves. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this shocking new report.

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A recent shocking report from Buzzfeed that was completely ignored by pretty much all of the mainstream media revealed that documents obtained by a whistleblower in the department of Homeland security show that ICE was aware of the fact that their negligence led to at least the deaths of four children in ICE detention camps. Now it's bad enough that these children died because of the negligence of ICE. It's bad enough we had three additional children die this year just because they didn't get a flu shot, but what's truly horrendous is what these documents obtained by Buzzfeed show us. The allegations appear in a DHS memo, reports of detainees being given incorrect medicines, suffering from delays and treating withdrawal symptoms and one who was allowed to become so mentally unstable. He lacerated his own penis and later required surgery. There's also reports of one eight year old boy who had to have part of his forehead partially removed. The children, the detainees that we have down there along our Southern border, the ones that the media really has forgotten about because oh we've got a primary, we've got impeachment. We've got to cover this. Trump wrote a scathing letter to Nancy Pelosi, let's forget about the massive human rights crisis we have on our soil. Kids are dying, they're dying and ICE knows they're dying and this whistleblower, the documents that they gave over to Buzzfeed shows that they know this is happening and they don't care. They're going to let it continue happening. I mean, just two weeks ago they arrested a group of doctors who wanted to go in and just give these kids flu shots. This is militant at this point, folks, this isn't something we can forget about. This isn't something that we can gloss over and this, this isn't something we can forgive the media for ignoring. This is the kind of issue that needs to be discussed every day. I know we just got past the holidays. Everybody's probably a little hung over from- from that in more ways than one, but we got to get back on this. We've got to talk about these problems and we have to address them. And I am still furious over the fact that the Democrats refused to put in their articles of impeachment, the human's rights crisis taking place along our borders in these concentration camps because that is what they've become. I mean, we are just a couple steps away from Germany in the early 1940s folks, that's, we are with these camps and the media ignores it. The politicians are pretending it's not actually happening because God forbid, we take our attention away from Donald Trump's Twitter feed for a couple hours to talk about the fact that kids are dying and ICE, doesn't give a damn about it.

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