DHS Secretary Nielsen holds 'emergency' call with Trump's Cabinet to discuss southern border

Department of Homeland Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen convened an emergency conference call with members of President Donald Trump's Cabinet Tuesday evening to discuss migration at the southern border, according to a participant on the call.

"We are going to treat it as if we have been hit by a Cat 5 hurricane," Nielsen said on the call, the participant told CNN.There are"900,000 people this year coming without any legal right to stay," she added, the source noted. Nielsen told Cabinet members that Homeland Security is establishing an"emergency operations cell" as is done during a hurricane with daily video teleconferences and operational updates, the source said.

Very well put

Sounds like an emergency that executive powers need to resolve.

So... no aid, racism, and a humanitarian crisis due to incapable leadership? Seems consistent.

House Dems are garbage. They don’t give a single damn about this country; all they care about is not giving Trump what he wants. Why not hearings in which border patrol agents are brought in and questioned about what’s really going on at the border? Dems don’t want that.

So, you'll throw paper towels at it, and then leave the job half-ass completed like you did Maria and Puerto Rico, that's what youre saying, right?

In that case, trump and his flying monkeys in his administration will SURELY screw it up!

Would that be a Cat 5 hitting LA and Texas, or hitting the USVI and Puerto Rico?

Needs to stop!!

She could run for president I would vote for her in twenny twenny 4

BUILD THAT WALL SHUT DOWN THAT BORDER. START USING REAL BULLETS SHOOT ALL ADULTS THAT TRY TO COME OVER AND MEXICO CAN TAKE ALL OF THE CHILDREN AND SEND THEM BACK TO THEIR OWN COUNTRY THEY ARE NOT WELCOME HERE.

So you're going to act like it's Puerto Rico by making some half-assed tepid response, throw paper towels at them, and then cut emergency funding?

So basically very little response?

Unless it hit pueto rico 🤨🤔

SecNielsen so they’ll be paper towels involved?

If only you thickos could understand that this is an event of your own making and the stupidity of the current regime and WH.

Americans are under attack.. from fake media and Democrats.

Well is that a cat 5 at Mara Lago or a cat 5 at Peurto Rico?

Okay, but we’ll have to know whether it’s a Puerto Rican like hurricane or a mainland like hurricane so we’ll know how seriously to take it.

So in other words, free paper towels.

This smells like another scam! Can the FBI begin its investigation or do the American people have to wait until they are screwed again?

Good!!

You mean you will do the bare minimum 🤣🤣🤣

She’s as bad as Trump

Uh, so they aren't going to do a damn thing?

So we are going to the boarder to throw paper towels and then leave and ignore it?

So like Puerto Rico?

So basically paper towels?

the only cat 5 is this government

The nay sayers like CNN are severely infected with DTS. There is a genuine crisis at the border perpetuated by years of neglect & inaction by Congress.Any failure to maintain the border is a direct threat to citizens. This is 💯 on SenSchumer and SpeakerPelosi. civilwarcoming

So incompetently?

SecNielsen ... just

So just waiting for 3000 people to die preventable deaths

Built the wall

USA 🇺🇸 army live fighting with taliban in afghanistan latest

Good. Secure the border

In Porto Rico?

Uhmm...should be treating Puerto Rico that way because IT WAS HIT BY A CAT 5 HURRICANE!!!

She should go to prison for Crimes Against Humanity

Context please...Hitting which area: Puerto Rico Florida Texas or Louisiana (“Katrina”)?

‘No, not like Hurricane Maria, though. Not like that. Not that kind of Cat 5 hurricane relief. Of course not.’

So we re treating the way we treated Puerto Rico.

TaritaC

Then they do nothing, right?

Do they have no sense of what a self own that quote is?

If Trump cuts funding to South American countries,he is causing the problem of imagination at the border, that is why he is cutting the funding. To make a border crisis.

So in other words you are going to choose to ignore it like P.R.

AND Does ANYONE OF THEM KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING?

Now! The liberal's are starting to cry crisis, Cuomo himself now calls for crisis....lol

So realDonaldTrump is going to throw paper towels at them?

Whaaaaaaaaat ? 🤦‍♂️

So you gonna throw paper towels at the problem?

So the same way Puerto Rico was treated after the Cat5 ?

But Flint get the response of crickets Flint EastChicago

Stop talking and do something

WhiteHouse but you didn’t even help Puerto Rico when they got hit by a hurricane so does this mean you’ll do nothing at the border?

That didn’t work for Puerto Rico now did it

Prayerfully, not like Puerto Rico or the Midwest.

Why is CNN putting 'emergency' in quotes?

That’s terrifying. Puerto Rico was hit with a Cat 5. What a poor job Trump’s minions did with that. Ready to throw rolls of paper towels SecNielsen ?

This administration gets worse every day...

You mean flyover it and pretend you fixed it?

So do nothing then.

A Puerto Rican Cat 5 hurricane?

I hope they handle it better than the dismal failure in Puerto Rico!

Nielson is hammered daily for migrants entering the US daily. All the blame is on her and the President. How can she sleep at thinking what she'll get blamed the next day for. Congress needs to step up to solve this problem

This admin is doing everything it can to manufacture a crisis at the border, it is designed to cause human suffering, how sick is that?

This person (I refuse to call her a woman, she’s not caring enough to deserve that title) should be on trial in The Hague, not plotting more ways to hurt and discriminate against immigrants.

We have seen how well they handle Cat 5 in Puerto Rico, so I’m sure that will be another governmental screw up.

So you’ll do next to nothing...?

elegantcoretta So ... ignore it? PuertoRicansAreUSCitizens

Well, gang. We finally have the emergency the President wanted at the border to prove his point! NOW WHAT?!

Who was the cabinet member? Another fake news story

Cat 5 hurricane huh? So you're saying you're gonna tell everyone that it's throwing the budget out of wack and then throw paper towels at people?

Blonde and working Fox News are not qualifiers for a leadership position.

So they will do nothing, maybe some hopes and prayers?

So do absolutely nothing?

So... ignore it?

How much handle are we talking? Puerto Rico handle or non-brown people handle?

NationalEmergency. My gosh could you imagine if Hillary Clinton were president? We would all be learning mandatory Spanish Pray for our president and the leader ship trying to save America!

So.... move them into the super dome then?

Step 1: Create a crisis at the border with reckless policies. Step 2: Propose 'solutions' that worsen the crisis Step 3: Use the crisis to try and excited your ignorant base Step 4: crash the economy by closing the border Step 5: Winning?

Lies

Puerto Rico Style?

I’m going to invest in the company that manufactures tear gas🤣

Fascist and racist! 2 for 1

🇺🇸 invaded by humans from where, what is their plan, will they increase taxes, crime, homeless, disease, medical..... So many questions, American is being destroyed from within. Are we going do what is best for our country as citizens or side with color, religion, hate?

Tossing 'em rolls of paper towels? That oughta do it. Really worked well in Puerto Rico

Meanwhile, 3000 Americans died after a Cat 5 hurricane because the Trump administration slow walked federal aid to Puerto Rico & threw paper towels at them.... but the border emergency

Where fema at? Y'all summoned to the border!

And we're going to treat the places hit by actual hurricane like a goal and shoot paper towels at them

Lol so the same way you handled PR?

It’d be great if you treated actual hurricanes that way. SecNielsen DHSgov PuertoRico

Nielsen is as credible as trump...not. She is taking the playbook from her boss because she doesn't have the integrity, the honesty to go against him. Just like McConnell, Graham, nunes. A wall does not solve a problem, nor do trumps plaques to himself on the wall.

I am sure are retired military men and women would be happy to go down to the border and help out

Throw rolls of paper towels at it! That fixes stuff and things and whatnot.

It’s worse

The cat. 5 is in the white house

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Ummm... emergency is the state of the people. You can't call a people, the actual emergency. That's what wars are made of. When we start classifying an 'other' as a storm, its dehumanizing.

So leave them stranded without food, water, infrastructure or medical aid? Just like Puerto Rico?

So, they’re going to throw paper towels at the people who survive the border crossing?

Treat it as if they've been hit by a cat 5 hurricane?! Looking at what the administration did not do for Puerto Rico doesn't bode well for immigration at the southern border. Anyway the southern border is not a national emergency

So they're going to throw paper towels at themselves and call it a day?

Like Puerto Rico?

it was only a emergency when trump made it a crisis there was no crisis before god why can you all not see it why

Curious how most democrats were with us on fixing this immigration problem until President Trump promised to fix it. What changed?

Add Panhandle of Florida..... they still are not getting appropriate help from a REAL Cat 5 hurricane

You mean like that country Puerto Rico🤪

'Failed' libs! On the border!!

God help us all.

Here's an idea: Why don't we treat the refugees as if they were people that had been hit by a Cat 5 hurricane? That's what human beings would do.

close the border and deploy the troops, enough of this foolishness.

“But only a cat 5 hurricane in the continental US. We’re pretty good at those.”

Was there big big water involved?

Puertorriqueños:

She should have chosen a better analogy; they are screwing over Puerto Rico so don't expect much.

WE CANNOT AFFORD THIS ANY LONGER !!!!!!!!!!! $120 billion is coming right out of all of our pockets in taxes schools are overcrowded they have no supplies homeless veterans homeless Americans people without health care,

They’re going to show up for a photo op and throw paper towels?

Meanwhile, victims of actual Cat 5 hurricanes are screwed.

The wicked witch of the West. She should be in jail for crimes against humanity.

Let’s force all the illegals to register as Republicans problem solved

Shut it down! This is a disaster!

Like the one that hit Puerto Rico? That should go well then.

How many schools and hospitals do we need to build to give free everything to these foreigners? How much will this cost real Americans?

You mean they’re going to do nothing other than spread the blame around while they play golf with taxpayer money? Ok.

You mean ignore it? Then say you are doing something, at the same time pocketing the money? Ya, sounds about right.

Weird. How does she think tossing a few paper towels to the migrants is going to help?

So, is Trump bringing paper towels to the border?

So, using an actual hurricane hitting America for example, you're going to ignore it, say it's too far away to help, and let the whole situation fester without proper aid? Maybe throw some paper towels at them?

May b good idea is to set up preliminary refugees screening office online and set a minimal requirments of education and expereince in trades. Illegal entries may barred by setting high pitched alarms at border.

Just how stupid can CNN get?

Soo y’all just going to throw paper towels at it and pretend that it’s fixed

How about treating Puerto Rico that way?

So - your plan is to stand at the border and throw paper towels?

They are so dumb. Not one of them said, “That will sound bad after Puerto Rico and also the Midwest is in an underwater actual emergency RIGHT NOW.”

the only illegal migration crisis is at mara lago

So they ain’t going to do shit then?

You are going to see 1 to3 million illegals this year. If you could count al that are coming across around the fences. There are illegals from the Middle East and Africa among the out of control mob. How can the Democrats guarantee American Safety against another 9/11 or worse?

So since it involves brown people, do nothing? Gotcha

Ask Puerto Rico how that turns out🤔

So, in other words, boast about immediate action, promise a ton of money, throw paper towels, demand admiration and a big thank-you, and then cut the funding?

Clueless realDonaldTrump we need those taxes HouseDemocrats SpeakerPelosi SenSchumer JoeBiden RepCummings RepJerryNadler resist

Like Puerto Rico?

We can’t afford to keep on letting ILLEGALS TO POUR INTO OUR COUNTRY BuildTheDamnWall

Meanwhile, Puerto Rico, which was actually hit by a Cat 5 hurricane, a US territory, where it’s occupants are US citizens....

If only there weren’t somewhere else in the US that had already been hit with a cat 5 hurricane and is still in need of help, because this administration has ignored them due to what we can only assume is racism. But do go on about the nonexistent emergency at the border.

So, paper towels?

How many more will die?

Heck of a job, Brownie....

So you’re gonna throw paper towels at them?

So, 3000 people will die at the border this week? 🙄🙄🙄

I thought she gave an honest assessment of the illegal immigration problems at the border and associated risks.

We need congress to do there job today and change this stupid asylum policy that allows illegal aliens to roam free throughout the country and miss their court dates.

Well. Looking at this administration's work on hurricane response. That won't work.

Unlike Puerto Rico? RacistGaslighting⛽️🔥

Hope not. Just ask the Puerto Ricans.

If we don't get our way about anything-HAIR ON FIRE! Mobilize the National Guard, get all resources possible from the Active Duty Military through the Pentagon, bypass Congress, fight the courts, divide the nation, attack our political enemies, take foreign aid...over a fence.

Something has to give on the USA- Mexican border.

Administration is creating a crisis so they can come to the rescue!

Unless you live in Puerto Rico.

Soooo throw papertowels at them?

They didn't even treat PR like it was hit by Cat 5 hurricane & 3000 ppl died.

These are politicians they are not qualified to analyze and fix a problem, why would we have laws that are absurd to rational people, someone pays for as loophole, then the other side gets a loophole and so on they're all working together and we always pay for it

They didn’t even treat a Cat5 hurricane as a Cat5! Most inept DHS ever.

Well trump is CREATING his NATIONAL EMERGENCY in order to get his BILLIONS for a “wall” & it’s working because there’s a rush of migrants at the border for a lot of reasons but they’re NOT processing anyone! They’re just throwing them in cages!

What, like they have treated Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

Subtext: And I don't mean like Puerto Rico.

It’s been a category 5 hurricane for DECADES!

So you will appropriate taxpayer money, ignore the humanitarian crisis until the little brown people die, send thoughts and prayers and then dine out on the taxpayer's dime. It would seem this administration has perfected the art.

Humanity is clearly not Sec Nielsens forte.

So like the hurricane in Puerto Rico? Kind of pretend it really isn't there?

And? Are you saying this is a crisis?

Is she Eric Trump in a wig

Don’t forget this.

So nothing

Where are the 'lip service' Democrats? I don't see THEM addressing the humanitarian & immigration crisis at the border. Dems love to complain, point fingers and blame everybody else and all they are doing right now is sitting on their hands and being 'present'.

I look forward to seeing CBP deter illegal border crossers by pelting them with rolls of paper towels.

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