We were gonna post this tweet one more time just to see how many retweets it’s gotten today (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was one), but it looks like “proud undocumented & unafraid Mexican-American” and “intersectional feminist” Erika Andiola deleted it — likely because her claim that 7-year-old Jakelin Caal Maquin had “died alone” in a CBP detention facility was an outright lie. She died in a hospital with her father by her side and doctors trying desperately to save her.
CNN’s Jake Tapper revealed Saturday night that Guatemalan Consul Tekandi Paniagua had spoken extensively with Jakelin’s father, who said that border agents did everything they could to save the girl.
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
2/ The consul says the father told him that agents did everything they possibly could to help the girl on the bus.
— 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
So this idiot who neglected to give his daughter food and water as he dragged her across the desert has no complaints about how he was treated by the Border Patrol and admits they did everything they could for his daughter, who was too far gone to save once she’d be picked up.
Has anyone told @HillaryClinton because she was seriously pretending to care about this poor kid?
— Don Gulizia Jr. (@Coach_Don_G) December 16, 2018
@HillaryClinton …you seeing this? America is the greatest nation on earth no matter how hard you try to paint/depict us as awful. You, are what is awful. Oh yeah, you lost and I am proud to say I helped with that.
— MO Hillbilly (@MO_hillbilly1) December 16, 2018
but MUH NARRATIVE
— ?? Op Mockingbird (@VexVolition) December 16, 2018
Our Border Patrol does as much humanitarian aid as they do policing the border. They deserve respect and support for what they do.
— NPOB Sports ETC (@_NPOB) December 16, 2018
Is this where all the "this is not who we are" crowd recognize that the border patrol are not a bunch of homicidal maniacs?
— GuaranteedEtern ???? (@GuaranteedEtern) December 16, 2018
Looks like Senate and House democrats along with a big percentage of the msm jumped the gun here, solely to try to make the Trump administration look like nazis. This is probably as close as the press will get to calling them out on it.
— Chris Greene ???????? (@Cag_baseball) December 16, 2018
Wait until CNN figures out nearly 2 dozen illegals died in custody during the Obama administration…..
— Howboutem (@stevedawg34) December 16, 2018
Hold up … here’s a statement written by attorneys for the family of Jakelin that claims that the girl had been given food and water. What’s the chance that the family would have attorneys asking for an investigation that might clear the father of any responsibility for the girl’s death?
NEW: Statement by Family of Jakelin Amei Rosmery Caal Maquin vida @AHouseElPaso #immigration #JakelinCaalMaquin pic.twitter.com/zErAEdjTKe
— Juan Escalante (@JuanSaaa) December 15, 2018
Related:
Quite a stretch: Guess which Rep.-elect is retweeting an ‘abject lie’ about 7-year-old migrant’s death? https://t.co/v5QPL9ohpG
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) December 15, 2018
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