So you know how Corey Lewandowski had a douchey reaction after being told that a 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome was separated from her mother? He was all, “womp womp.”
There’s more to the story about the little girl.
Her separation had nothing to do with the “zero-tolerance” policy. ICE actually rescued her from a child smuggling attempt.
“We had separated this child with Down Syndrome from her mother as a result of a smuggling attempt on June 3,” DHS spokeswoman Katie Waldman revealed in an interview on Breitbart News Daily.
Waldman said that the girl’s mother was not a product of the DHS zero-tolerance enforcement at the border and was not being prosecuted. She also said that three of the children, who were U.S. citizens, were released to an aunt.
CNN reported on the case, citing Mexico’s Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray’s position on the story.
“The mother was not prosecuted, but is instead being held as a material witness to support the prosecution of the smuggler which participated the separation of the two other children, both Mexican citizens,” Waldman said.
Oh. Well, that’s inconvenient.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection says in statement that the minor who has Down Syndrome and was separated from her parent isn’t related to the zero tolerance policy. pic.twitter.com/wjFwe5Ygw4
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) June 20, 2018
You cut off the end of the stmt which reads “The children are in the custody of Health and Human Services, Office of Refugee Resettlement. U.S. Customs and Border Protection with the Department of Justice are working to reunite the mother with her children as soon as possible.”
— Roger Waters (@RogerWa57077993) June 20, 2018
Media stepped on a rake yet again in order to go after Trump? Shocker. https://t.co/HHFVT5Rgwf
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) June 20, 2018
This doesn’t make me feel any differently about Lewandowski’s initial reaction, because he didn’t have all the information at the time either. I still think he sucks. But does he suck harder than MSM, which conveniently left these little details out?
That’s up for debate.