Here's a headline from today's NY Post:
7-Year-Old Girl Dies In Customs and Border Protection Custody.
Oh no, it's going to be another story of how the USA cruelly deals with children just seeking a better life in America, right? That's the clear implication of the headline. But that's not the story. The child was picked up by the border patrol in rural New Mexico (basically in the middle of the desert) after going for many days without food or water. Things were so bad that a whole group of people (including the girls father) sought out and surrendered to a border patrol unit as it passed near them. The girl was taken to a shelter and her father left her to go to speak to a consular official from Guatemala. Shortly thereafter, the girl started having a seizure due to dehydration. She was rushed to a hospital, but they were unable to save her. In other words, she died because her father took her through the desert without food or water, not because of anything the border patrol did.
Could the headline be any more misleading? I don't think so.
7-Year-Old Girl Dies In Customs and Border Protection Custody.
Oh no, it's going to be another story of how the USA cruelly deals with children just seeking a better life in America, right? That's the clear implication of the headline. But that's not the story. The child was picked up by the border patrol in rural New Mexico (basically in the middle of the desert) after going for many days without food or water. Things were so bad that a whole group of people (including the girls father) sought out and surrendered to a border patrol unit as it passed near them. The girl was taken to a shelter and her father left her to go to speak to a consular official from Guatemala. Shortly thereafter, the girl started having a seizure due to dehydration. She was rushed to a hospital, but they were unable to save her. In other words, she died because her father took her through the desert without food or water, not because of anything the border patrol did.
Could the headline be any more misleading? I don't think so.
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