Posted on 07/01/2019 6:04:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Trump repeated a false claim to reporters Tuesday, wrongly blaming the Obama administration for instituting a policy in which children were separated from their parents at the Southern border.
"I'm the one that stopped it," Trump said. "President Obama had child separation."
Trump made the comments during a photo op prior to his meeting with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi.
Asked whether the administration was considering reinstating the policy of child separation to curb the number of migrant families crossing the border from Mexico, Trump responded that "We're not looking to do it."
But he seemed to imply it was an effective means of stemming border crossings, and he compared families attempting to cross into the U.S. to visitors to an amusement park. "I'll tell you something, once you don't have it that's why you have many more people coming. They are coming like it's a picnic, like, 'Let's go to Disneyland.' President Obama separated children. They had child separation; I was the one that changed it," Trump said.
Trump also denied that he is "cleaning house" at the Department of Homeland Security, in light of the departure of DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Secret Service Director Randolph "Tex" Alles this week. "I never said I'm cleaning house," Trump said.
Trump's false claim that child separations were carried out by the Obama administration has been frequently refuted.
"The Obama administration did not do that, no. We did not separate children from their parents," former Obama domestic policy adviser Cecilia Muñoz told NPR in May 2018. "This is a new decision, a policy decision put in place by the attorney general," which Muñoz said "puts us in league with the most brutal regimes in the world's history."
It was then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions who instituted the "zero tolerance" policy at the Southern border in April 2018, which resulted in children being separated from their parents who were taken into custody for criminal prosecution.
A federal judge allowed a lawsuit challenging the policy last June, and Trump issued an executive order ending it.
Still, as NPR's Domenico Montanaro wrote last year, the Trump administration has been unwilling to take the blame for the policy of family separations because of the political optics.
BS. State propaganda is in full swing.
NPR is not among the first million places I would go to for fact checks.
Obama’s Administration had “Cages” for migrants..I never heard the dems make a fuss..they just didnt report it because it would make messiah Obama look bad..we are wasting money caring for these people who are crossing the border illegally..they should NOT be allowed here, the second they cross the border, throw their asses back
We asked Obama domestic policy adviser Cecilia Muñoz about it.
"The Obama administration did not do that, no." she said.
Fact check complete.
https://qz.com/1291470/photos-immigrant-children-detained-at-the-placement-center-in-2014/
I did not know Donald Trump was the President in 2014.
Honest.
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bttt
The first time Obama heard he had this policy was when the news broke of the scandal, same sh!tty excuse different day.
Stalinists lie. Always
NPR citing former Obama officials for the facts...
GFO, Taylor
GFO, Naylor....
So what is the actual truth?
I assumed the children were put separate to keep them out of the men’s tent? To keep them safe?
I agree children should not be separated. They should stay together with their parents on the other side of the border until their hearing day in court.
NPR is not a reliable fact checker. They are just a liberal part of the press, paid for by your and my tax dollars.
Wasn’t some of their government funding cut or is threatened to be cut under Trumps administration? Not that I’m suggesting (coughcough) anything but the “fact check” and timing does seem suspicious....
Oh, well, npr. What next? A pbs docudrama. Or is that on netsux agenda as produced by the obxxx production team. Have they done anything besides draw a paycheck?
HONESTLY CONDUCTED FACT CHECK: NPR fails to report that their fact checker was a long time Obama and Hillary donor.
The Obama administration was putting children and adults together, even though was no evidence that the children and adults were related or that the minors were not simply being trafficked. It was actually a court (possibly 9th circuit) that ordered that minors be separated for their own protection. This took place during the last year or so of the Obama regime.
It is the parents responsibility for “anything” that happens to their children. Period!....It is not our country nor it’s presidents responsibility when these illegals have been told repeatedly don’t come here! They’ve purposely ignored our laws and warnings from the get go and continue to do so....
The problem is that they were (are) arriving with children and no documentation. In many cases it turned out that the children didn’t belong to them and in several cases the “parents” were abusing the kids.
Immigration can’t afford the liability of leaving the kids with what is essentially strangers (or worse) so they separate them pending identification and eligibility. Of course the real solution is to deny them entry to the states so that any responsibility would remain on their heads, not ours.
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