Analysis: 'Sir, they’re not cages.' Kirstjen Nielsen apparently wasn’t prepared for these exchanges, but what she was ready for was some semantic debates.
By Aaron Blake Aaron Blake Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix Email Bio Follow March 6 at 2:01 PM When asked Wednesday how many children are detained at the southern U.S. border, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said she didn’t have the number handy. When asked how many “special-interest aliens” are detained at the northern border vs. the southern border, she said she had to check and would follow up.
In an exchange with Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson , he brought up the “cages,” and Nielsen took exception. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman followed up later and asked Nielsen to explain further. “What is a chain-link fence, enclosed into a chamber on a concrete floor represent to you?” she asked. “Is that a cage?”
— CBS This Morning June 18, 2018 “They said it’s not inaccurate,” CBS’s Gayle King explained in June. “They said they may be cages, but they’re not being treated like animals.” A Trump-friendly host on Fox News also said around the same time that the facilities aren’t cages but instead that authorities built “walls out of chain-link fences.”
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