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Over the weekend, the media narrative that the Trump administration is cruelly separating illegal immigrant parents from their children while in detention finally went viral. And that caused an enormous number of prominent Leftists to tweet out a bit of fake news: a story from 2014, during the Obama administration, regarding the holding of illegal immigrant children who had entered the United States en masse . The photos from that story were disseminated, ironically enough, by at least one member of the Obama administration:
The pictures were also tweeted by Shaun King and Linda Sarsour, among others.
As soon as many of these commentators realized that they had inadvertently smacked down President Obama’s administration, they deleted their tweets and corrected them:
President Trump, meanwhile, blamed Democrats for the separation of illegal immigrant children from parents:
The ACLU, meanwhile, is fighting Trump on this:
So, what’s the real story?
There are really two issues. First, there’s the status of unaccompanied minors entering the United States. Those minors must be remanded to foster parents, shelters or sponsors within 20 days rather than held indefinitely in detention facilities. That settlement, according to FactCheck.org, was extended to accompanied children as well. Here’s FactCheck.org’s summary of the situation (they said Trump was lying, by the way):
They require the government to release children from custody after a certain period of detainment, said Sarah Pierce , a policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute. But they don’t require that parents continue to be held in immigration detention. “The government absolutely has the option to release the parents,” as well, Pierce said. That’s as long as they aren’t a flight or safety risk, she added.
But this means Trump isn’t lying at all. He’s pointing out that Democrats and Leftist judges ( particularly on the Ninth Circuit ) have suggested that children cannot be detained at all, which means that if the American government wishes to detain parents, they must separate the families. Trump’s only other choice would be not to prosecute illegal immigration at all.
Which means that any legislative fix would include an express provision stating that children should be kept with their parents in detention – or at least that parents should be given the option of keeping their children with them in detention.
I'm surprised that there has been little mention of the missing 1500 or so of "Obama's" kids, mostly from Central America that he had advertised for. Briefly processed in US border towns, then released to go wherever they wanted in the US, with the promise that they get in touch with the authorities later for further processing and followup. I'm sure there were goodly numbers of MS-13 "kids" included in the total.
I know. If they do report it, they'll probably do it like this, report it like it has just happened. The photos are from Obama’s time in office.
Oh, you mean like this thug?
But Obama! But Hillary! But but but but but but.......
The reporting, tweeting and talking heads have conflated laws regarding minors to serve their own political purposes. Our immigration policies are vast, varied and complicated.
Unaccompanied minors and minors "caught" with their parents has a set of law that applies to separation.
Parents with minors seeking asylum, who present themselves at our Port of Entry, are covered by different statues.
The photos here are as unsettling today as they were when taken. We're better than this and I don't give a damn who the sitting President is. We need immigration reform that aligns itself with the values and morals of our great nation.
The left's incessant penchant for fake news strikes again!
LMAO this has caused me to lose all the faith I had in the veracity of Tweets. Next I'll probably learn that not everything on the Internet is true.
The outrage magically disappears when it was the Obama administration doing it.
As twitchy said, possibly the greatest self-own in twitter history.