Originally Posted by RedFred

You probably should learn the truth about this since you keep repeating this lie.


Alternative Fact of the Week: Kids in cages? Thanks, Obama

Now what makes this claim so insidious is that there’s a nugget of truth here but only the tiniest of one. That is to say that children were sometimes separated from adults at the border in limited cases such as suspected human trafficking or when family ties appeared doubtful or they were simply unaccompanied minors, a practice that took place during George W. Bush’s presidency as well. What raised a furor, and caused the number of incarcerated children to skyrocket, was the so-called “zero tolerance” policy begun in pilot program in 2017 and then greatly expanded by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions one year ago. Under this wholly Trump administration policy, all adults crossing the border illegally were treated as criminals and their children housed apart from them. This affected thousands of children and it was handled so poorly that the Department of Homeland Security still hasn’t offered a full accounting of how many youngsters were involved and whether they were all successfully reunited with their families. The president ended the practice last summer.

Yet there was Mr. Trump at a photo op at the White House this week with Egypt’s president telling reporters that he was the one who corrected an Obama transgression. "I'm the one that stopped it," President Trump boasted. "President Obama had child separation."


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