Posted on 06/22/2019 5:27:08 AM PDT by Ennis85
President Donald Trump made a series of false statements in an interview that aired Thursday on Spanish-language network Telemundo.
Most notably, Trump repeatedly claimed that he had "inherited" an Obama-era policy of separating migrant children from their parents. In fact, he instituted the policy.
Family separation
Trump said former president Barack Obama had left him a family separation policy. "When I became president, President Obama had a separation policy," Trump said. "I didn't have it. He had it. I brought the families together. I'm the one that put 'em together." Interviewer José Díaz-Balart challenged Trump on the assertion, pointing out that thousands of children were reunited with their parents in the last year after his administration's zero-tolerance policy had separated them. But Trump pushed back, wrongly insisting that he "inherited separation, and I changed the plan, and I brought people together."
Facts First: Trump did not inherit an Obama policy of routinely separating migrant children from their parents. Separations were rare under Obama. Trump made them standard. In March 2017, John Kelly, then the secretary of Homeland Security, told CNN that he was thinking about implementing a separation program "to deter more movement along this terribly dangerous network." In April 2018, Jeff Sessions, then the attorney general, announced a new "zero tolerance" policy in which everybody caught crossing the border illegally would be criminally prosecuted -- a change he explicitly noted would result in regular separations. "If you're smuggling a child, we're going to prosecute you, and that child will be separated from you, probably, as required by law. If you don't want your child to be separated, then don't bring them across the border illegally," Sessions said. Separations did sometimes occur under Obama, but they were non-routine and much less frequent, according to immigration experts and former Obama officials.
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How many times has CNN fact checked Pelosi, Hillary, Obama, AOC, Don Lemon, Joy Bahar...
Did he say that they are Intelligent, Hard working and Honest?
Obama DID use separation as a deterrent in 2014...Just found in an old article.
And who here will be surprised that CNN is, again, lying boldly?
Garbage news
“Did he say...”
Lol and a half!!
They tried to soft peddle that by saying, "Separations were rare under Obama."
Fact checked by FAKE news CNN.
“Separations were rare under Obama.”
If it happened once then it was existing policy a- holes.
But remember.....he was just letting anyone in....all about the vote.
Its CNN the communist network
Can you post that article? Then we can all send it around the net showing what liars these guys are.
My understanding is that there was a policy during Obama, but it was largely ignored. DJT decided to ENFORCE THE LAW because there was friggin’ problem at the friggn’ border. !
Bupp, bupp, bupp. Let’s go back to point #1 CNN. If there was no such policy under Soetoro, how could there have been any separations at all, let alone been rare? Do you mean rare as in how abortions are rare?
Ha haaaaa! Notice how CNN’s “source” for point #1 was immigration experts and Soetoro officials.
“How many times......”
CNN? How many times have they told the truth when they wrote something? Their opening rant saying Trump did not do the same thing Obama did following it in the next sentence that Obama did it “rarely”? They just went from didn’t to did. Boy is that a display of expert journalism. I’m surprised a period got in the way of keeping it in the same sentence.
rwood
When the second line of the article is an outright lie, why should I read any further?
CNN has truly earned its moniker as fake news.
Fake news CNN is at it again.
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