A 7-year-old girl who died in the care of a Border Patrol agent has new details about what happened to her and why she died. Also, a man competed in the Miss Universe pageant last night. How is that not appropriation? We'll talk about that today on the Matt Walsh Show.
00:00:00.040Today on the Matt Walsh Show, more information has come out in the case of the seven-year-old girl who died in the care of Border Patrol.
00:00:06.720It's becoming clearer and clearer, in my view, that Border Patrol did nothing wrong, but that's not what the left is saying.
00:00:11.560We'll talk about that. Also, a man competed in the Miss Universe pageant last night. How is that not appropriation?
00:00:18.440We'll talk about that today on the Matt Walsh Show.
00:00:20.580Well, we begin today with the tragic story of Jacqueline Call, who's the seven-year-old girl who, as it is phrased by the media, died in the care of Border Patrol last week.
00:00:38.240Of course, that's true in a literal and immediate kind of sense.
00:00:45.060It is literally true that she died in the care of Border Patrol, but it's not necessarily true or evidently true that she died because of Border Patrol,
00:00:53.260although that obviously is the conclusion that the media is trying to lead us to.
00:00:58.860When they phrase it that way in their headlines and everything else, they say a child died in the care of Border Patrol.
00:01:05.500Obviously, what they're trying to insinuate, what they want you to take away from that, is that it was Border Patrol's fault.
00:01:11.040But we were told last week that Jacqueline and her father were detained along a remote stretch of the border with about 160 other people.
00:01:19.480Jacqueline died hours later at a hospital in Texas.
00:01:22.060It was originally reported that she was dehydrated and hadn't had anything to eat or drink in several days.
00:02:32.280Well, you know, I don't know if he understood the forms or not.
00:02:35.280But are we really are we actually expected to have forms in Mayan that we can provide to the people that come across the border?
00:02:43.500However, if you come to a country speaking a language that nobody knows in this country, the country that you came to, how can that be the fault of the of the country that you came to?
00:02:58.280Well, in any case, he signed the form.
00:03:02.000Hours later, she began vomiting, was having trouble breathing.
00:03:05.040They airlifted her to a hospital and tragically, she died there in the hospital.
00:03:09.880The hospital says that she likely died from sepsis shock, which is a condition, as I understand it, which stems from inflammation in the body, causing lots of catastrophic problems, including organ failure.
00:03:24.220Now, here's an here's an interesting note.
00:03:27.240The Guatemalan consul says that the father told him that he has no complaints about how the Border Patrol treated his daughter, even though the father's lawyers are calling for an investigation.
00:03:38.680According to the Guatemalan consul, the father had no complaints.
00:03:42.020According to him, the father says that that Border Patrol did everything they could to save his daughter's life.
00:03:49.200Border Patrol itself says that they did provide water when they first detained this group.
00:03:55.800And again, when she began vomiting and was having trouble breathing, they revived her twice right there on the spot.
00:04:03.400She got medical attention, urgent medical attention on the spot.
00:04:06.280Then they put her then they they airlifted her to a hospital where tragically she died.
00:04:15.760Is it true that she hadn't been drinking or eating for days and that's what led to this medical emergency?
00:04:22.160Well, that's what Border Patrol originally said.
00:04:26.320I guess we don't know for sure, but there are some undisputed facts here.
00:04:30.500OK, I don't think there are some aspects of this story that are, I think, pretty clear to everyone.
00:04:37.100So here are the what I think are the undisputed facts.
00:04:40.400It's undisputed that the child was only in U.S. custody for a few hours.
00:04:44.900So nobody is even claiming that she was locked somewhere being detained for days and days and then she died, which, of course, would put a would put an entirely different color on this whole situation.
00:06:06.420It certainly would seem to be a logical conclusion that her physical condition must have had something to do with the ordeal that she'd just been through.
00:06:16.060It's not to get from Guatemala to the U.S. border.
00:06:26.340I don't think anyone knows, except for the father and that group of people, what happened along the way.
00:06:30.480But it certainly is not an easy journey unless you're just getting in an airplane and flying the whole way, which we can assume they did not do.
00:06:39.800And if a child comes through that journey and gets to the other end of it and is in this state, I think it's logical to conclude that that must have had something to do with it.
00:06:53.740So we don't know in terms of the father's culpability or, you know, was he caring for his daughter the whole way, making sure that he she was eating and drinking.
00:07:08.140But the question is, is there any based on the information we have now, is there actually any reason at all to think that this was the fault of Border Patrol?
00:07:27.700But that, of course, has not stopped the left from drawing these conclusions anyway.
00:07:33.040In fact, there's an editorial on the NBC News website by Julio Varela with the title.
00:07:41.520Jacqueline Call's death at the Mexico border is our fault, not her father's.
00:07:46.520And I want to read you a little bit of this because I think it's pretty representative of the consensus on the left when it comes to this issue.
00:07:51.320It says a seven-year-old Guatemalan girl named Jacqueline Amir Rosemary Call McKean died last week in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
00:08:00.780And the Trump administration has chosen to blame the victim and her father for the death.
00:08:29.980This is the nation that Trump has created, a country that continues to dehumanize and criminalize Central American migrants without any sense of compassion or explanation for the root causes of why people are fleeing their countries in the first place.
00:08:40.860Even if I were to agree with that paragraph, which I don't, it has nothing at all to do with the fact that this poor girl died.
00:08:51.560According to the Trump administration, her death was her fault, and it was her dad's fault.
00:08:55.500Even though government officials confirmed that after being held for several hours in a remote border patrol station, Jacqueline was put on a bus for 90 minutes to be transferred to a larger border station for processing before getting any emergency medical care for her symptoms, which included vomiting.
00:09:09.360By the time a bus had stopped, so had her breathing.
00:09:11.380A child is dead, and the current administration shows no remorse.
00:09:13.960There's that lie again, that the Trump administration is saying that her death was her fault.
00:09:29.180Immediate care didn't really apply to Jacqueline's situation, the place where she and her father turned themselves into CBP, had no medical care providers, and, as the secretary noted, wasn't staffed to handle the 163 people who arrived that day.
00:09:43.400And the idea that border patrol is some welcoming force when migrants surrender themselves to the agency is just not true.
00:09:50.360So, what would this person have us do?
00:09:57.400We have to be equipped to handle any amount of people anywhere on the border at any time.
00:10:02.820We have to have a team of doctors on standby, stationed across the border, ready to conduct full physicals of every person who comes across immediately.
00:10:13.780You know, I'm not making a straw man here.
00:10:15.340This is really what this person expects.
00:10:35.640That's an exceedingly reasonable way of dealing with this situation.
00:10:39.540When you have a whole group of 160 people who are trying to cross the border illegally, initially anyway, if you want to find out if any of them are sick or if there's anything wrong, all you can do is ask them.
00:10:54.440Obviously, you can't perform full medical exams on all of them right there on the spot.
00:11:00.760Then, when the child started vomiting, she received medical attention.
00:11:06.480If you have a problem with that chain of events, if there's something here that seems unreasonable to you, then you must really expect that immediate and full medical attention should be provided to everyone who crosses the border right away, no matter where they are, and no matter if they ask for medical attention or not, which, of course, is crazy.
00:11:26.000Well, the author of the article complains that, yes, they did sign forms attesting to their health, but that wasn't good enough.
00:11:34.640The article says, and though the government has argued that Jacqueline's father was asked to sign forms attesting to their health, the forms are presented in English or Spanish.
00:11:43.460Jacqueline's father speaks Ka'ekchi, an indigenous language of the region, and may not speak Spanish at all.
00:11:50.420Okay, so now we have to have forms in Ka'ekchi.
00:11:56.460That's, we are required to have forms in Ka'ekchi.
00:12:00.800That's a language spoken by a few hundred thousand people on the entire planet Earth, okay?
00:12:08.560There are literally hundreds of indigenous languages still spoken in Central and South America today.
00:12:15.040Are we supposed to have forms in each of those languages?
00:12:18.000And how are we supposed to know which language group is crossing at what time and where?
00:12:26.680Should Border Patrol literally carry around with them at all times hundreds of forms in hundreds of different languages?
00:12:35.080And how are they supposed to know which form to give to which person?
00:12:40.120So I guess we're going to need hundreds of translators for hundreds of languages carrying hundreds of forms across thousands of miles of borders.
00:12:49.660That, I mean, that's what, if you, if you are blaming Border Patrol for not having a medical form written in a mostly extinct Mayan language to give to this family,
00:13:02.600if you're blaming them, then this must really be what you expect.
00:13:05.800You must expect that they'll have a form in every Central and South American language that every Border Patrol agent will have on them at all times.
00:13:15.760And that, obviously, is simply insane.
00:13:22.320When you have an influx of thousands of illegal immigrants from dozens of countries speaking hundreds of languages streaming across thousands of miles of border with no regard at all for our laws,
00:13:33.880there is just no perfect or even near perfect or even totally sufficient way of dealing with the problem.
00:13:43.860You know, we are being put in a literally impossible situation.
00:13:48.280So it is very easy to sit in your house and insist that we should have the ability to recognize if any person who crosses the border is sick, even if they don't tell us.
00:14:00.400And then we should have the ability to immediately provide them with medical treatment right there on the spot in the middle of the desert.
00:14:09.760But if you actually apply your brain to the situation, which I'm afraid the left does not often do when it comes to illegal immigration or, frankly, so many other issues as well.
00:14:22.680But if you do that, if you just stop for a minute to think about it, think about it on a practical level.
00:14:28.300And, you know, and I think that liberals often have a problem with it.
00:14:31.380They often struggle to think of things practically.
00:14:34.000Okay, put all, I know, you know, you could sit there and say it would be so nice if this and that, it would be nice.
00:14:41.000But let's just think of it practically on a real world kind of basis.
00:14:49.780And if you do that, you will see that though it's easy to say that we should be equipped everywhere and always to deal with situations like this one.
00:15:05.840It's easy to say that, but it's actually impossible to do.
00:15:47.160The liberals who are blaming, and even after reading this article and many others that are making this case,
00:15:52.780and seeing all these liberals blaming Border Patrol, I'm not actually sure what, it's not clear to me what exactly they're blaming Border Patrol for.
00:16:06.920In their minds, what did Border Patrol do wrong?