"plainly meet the definition of torture under international law."
(Source: http://forms.nomoredeaths.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/CultureOfCruelty-full.compressed.pdf.)
CBP officers and supervisors have operated as rogue agents minus any accountability provisions for far too long. Any complaints or reports of CBP abuses must be initially filed with the very Border Patrol that is abusing them while in custody. That policy alone is a spit away from the injustices seen in totalitarian 'banana' republics. CBP administration and agents in the field must be held accountable using a transparent process with an independent entity conducting any review and investigation of CBP procedures and personnel. The present policy of CBP 'self-study' is little more than the 'fox guarding the henhouse.' Anything less than full transparency and accountability represents an ongoing, open invitation to maintain the present level of systemic abuse in CBP; the same systemic abuse that murdered 7-year-old Jakelin.
Conclusion: Racist politics--Trump's granddaughter gets cake and Jakelin gets a coffin
Arabella Rose Kushner, the president's granddaughter, is seven-years-old, from a wealthy family, and most importantly--white. Her next birthday party will be in July of 2019. Undoubtedly, her eighth birthday party will have lavish presents, friends, a pony ride and birthday cake. Arabella lives as a member of the 1% and has never known hunger. Her birthday cake will likely come from a boutique bakery in Manhattan that specializes in elaborate re-creations of Elsa--or Wonder Woman, that have been artfully crafted from flour, eggs and sugar. The cost of her birthday cake alone would likely be enough to feed a migrant family of six for a month.
Jakelin Caal Maquin was born in Guatemala and traveled to the U.S. with her family to find a better life. Her parents sought legal asylum from the plague of ongoing gang violence in their home nation. Her birthday cakes were most likely homemade and simple. Though her family loved her, Jakelin will never have another birthday cake, or another birthday. Jakelin was seven years old when she died; the same age as Arabella Kushner. Unlike Arabella--Jakelin will never again open birthday presents eagerly looking for that Barbie doll, gossip and giggle with her best friend, or go to her high school prom. Her father will not walk her down the aisle or bounce any grandchildren on his knee because Jakelin was murdered at the tender age of seven, for being undocumented--and Latina.
She died while in CPB custody, due to criminal neglect and abuse. It was alleged by various anonymous authorities that she died from dehydration and septic shock after being refused food and water for seven days. (Source: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/01/border-patrol-texas-immigration.html.)
There was no further explanation or established causal chain of evidence that otherwise clarified how a seven-year-old child died from septic shock resulting in total organ failure. The Border Patrol held this child prisoner until she died a gruesome death.
Apparently, that chain of evidence is too obtuse for US Senator Roy Blunt, his anonymous aides, and other members of the GOP--supporting this Trump administration's 'culture of cruelty'--but kudos for Steve King's impotent reprimand.
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