Democrats now argue that migrants in United States detention centers are comparable to slave ships.
During an interview Friday on MSNBC, Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-.N.Y., claimed that illegal aliens being housed in detention centers “looked like a slave ship.”
The politically charged segment began when Espaillat was asked if Trump’s policies were responsible for the death of a migrant child in U.S. custody.
“One death is far too many, first of all. I was down there at the border and I saw myself how these children, primarily women with children, very small children were in a dingy, smelly, cold floor,” Espaillat began.
“Packed like sardines. It looked like a slave ship. We’re a far better country than that. The conditions of this humanitarian crisis down at the border are getting worse,” he added.
.@RepPeteKing, one death is far too many when discussing the #HumanitarianCrisis at the border and especially when the lives of children are at stake. Stop playing the #BlameGame and let’s get to work. @MSNBC @ChrisJansing pic.twitter.com/yV5xf5Ohq5
— Adriano Espaillat (@RepEspaillat) December 28, 2018
The New York Democrat was arguing that detention centers — which provide migrants with food, water, shelter, resources, games, toys, and other amenities at no cost to them — resemble ships carrying African-American slaves, who were beaten, tortured, and even killed many years ago.
Espaillat then moved on to calling the “situation” at the border a humanitarian crisis.
“This is a humanitarian crisis that now the Trump shutdown proposes to throw into — fuel into it in unprecedented level. He’s proposing now to shut down the wall. I think this will create a humanitarian crisis of unprecedented levels in the southern border,” he said.
Espaillat comparing detention centers to slave ships came one day after MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff declared that President Donald Trump’s policies are responsible for the “preventable and predictable” death of a migrant child in U.S. custody.
“Nobody, children or otherwise, are supposed to be held in border patrol processing stations that are well known to be unsanitary, dangerous environments for people to stay in for longer than 72 hours,” he declared.
“The idea this boy spent nearly a week jumping between multiple border patrol processing stations and ultimately he became sick is actually not surprising at all,” he added.
He added: “Of course, it’s a tragedy these two kids died, but it was preventable and predictable based on the fact we knew what these facilities were like all along.”
Soboroff was blaming the Trump administration for the death of Felipe Alonzo-Gomez, a young migrant child who died in U.S. custody recently after his father dangerously forced him to embark on a long journey from Mexico to the U.S. and then refused medical attention from American officials.
The media outrage over Alonzo-Gomez’s death, which possibly could have been prevented if his father had accepted medical treatment, has resulted in despicable comments like the ones from Espaillat and Soboroff.
If two migrant children dying in U.S. custody — both of which were sick prior to arriving in America, and were treated by U.S. officials — is a “humanitarian crisis” and comparable to slavery, then why was the media nowhere to be found when nearly two dozen migrants died under former President Barack Obama’s administration?
In July 2016, it was reported that 18 migrants died in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol while Obama was in office.
Of those 18, at least seven died as the result of the agency’s “substandard” and “inappropriate” care for migrants at detention centers.
Where was the media outrage then?
And let’s not forget the media, liberal activists, and Democratic lawmakers losing their minds earlier this year when photos surfaced showing migrants in “cages” at U.S. detention centers.
The photos scorched across social media and resulted in many going off half-cocked saying the Trump administration has full-blown concentration camps.
Of course, the photos were from 2014, when Obama was in office.
In Trump’s two years in office, two migrant children have died in U.S. custody. Democrats have accused the president of running concentration camps, compared the centers to slave ships, accused Trump of deliberately killing migrants.
When 18 migrants died in U.S. custody under Obama, the media was silent and nowhere to be found.
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