• These failures “should not be viewed as rare anomalies, but rather as systemic weaknesses that if not remedied, are likely to result in future harm to children in CBP custody,”

    So in actuality her death wasn’t preventable. It could have been if the system was something else than what it is, but it isn’t and likely won’t be.

    •  BrikoX   ( @BrikoX@lemmy.zip ) OP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      131 year ago

      Mr Wise’s report stated that border patrol staff were told about her medical condition when she arrived at the site where she was held in Harlington, Texas. But that information was not passed on to other agents, he wrote.

      Both can be true at the same time.

          •  jmp242   ( @jmp242@sopuli.xyz ) 
            link
            fedilink
            English
            11 year ago

            Oh god - I swear no one talks to co-workers or relays information anywhere in the US now adays. I don’t understand it, I don’t understand the systems that can’t handle bouncing you around different people when they also enforce doing that, and I don’t think it’s specific to the US border patrol.