Did President Obama separate families at the border? No!

Over Memorial Day weekend, President Trump tweeted that people should "put pressure on the Democrats to end the horrible law that separates children from there parents once they cross the Border into the U.S."

The president implied that children were being separated from their parents at the border because of a law enacted by Democrats.

Actually, the policy in question was enacted by his own administration.

On May 7, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a speech that "If you're smuggling a child, then 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 separated, then don't bring them across the border illegally. It's not our fault that somebody does that."

Sessions announced the policy in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Under U.S. law, entering the country illegally is a crime. The Trump administration has decreed that such attempts will be prosecuted, meaning the adults are detained, and any children who accompany them are separated.

In an interview with NPR's Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep Tuesday, former President Barack Obama's domestic policy director, Cecilia Muñoz, stated unequivocally that separating children from their parents was not a policy the Obama administration followed.

"The Obama administration did not do that, no. We did not separate children from their parents," Muñoz said. "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."

More: FACT CHECK: Are Democrats Responsible For DHS Separating Children From Their Parents?

Trump keeps trying to blame Democrats for a policy that he enacted. Trump owns it.
You morons and your Orwellian ‘fact checks’

Obama did it as does every law enforcement agency in America.
 
Over Memorial Day weekend, President Trump tweeted that people should "put pressure on the Democrats to end the horrible law that separates children from there parents once they cross the Border into the U.S."

The president implied that children were being separated from their parents at the border because of a law enacted by Democrats.

Actually, the policy in question was enacted by his own administration.

On May 7, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a speech that "If you're smuggling a child, then 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 separated, then don't bring them across the border illegally. It's not our fault that somebody does that."

Sessions announced the policy in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Under U.S. law, entering the country illegally is a crime. The Trump administration has decreed that such attempts will be prosecuted, meaning the adults are detained, and any children who accompany them are separated.

In an interview with NPR's Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep Tuesday, former President Barack Obama's domestic policy director, Cecilia Muñoz, stated unequivocally that separating children from their parents was not a policy the Obama administration followed.

"The Obama administration did not do that, no. We did not separate children from their parents," Muñoz said. "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."

More: FACT CHECK: Are Democrats Responsible For DHS Separating Children From Their Parents?

Trump keeps trying to blame Democrats for a policy that he enacted. Trump owns it.
 
You rob a liquor store with your 5 year old kid, law enforcement sends them to separate holding facilities.

You sneak into America with your 5 year old kid, law enforcement sends them to separate holding facilities.

Moral of the story: don’t break the law.
 

I do wish you would read the posts you guys link to:

Favreau said in a series of tweets that he made a "mistake" by not checking the date of the photos before sharing them on Twitter. He explained that the photos were taken in 2014, when the Obama administration faced "an influx of unaccompanied minors who showed up at the border, fleeing violence from Central America."

He added that the pictures had been taken while the government was trying to "move those children out of those shelters as fast as humanly possible and connect them with their parents, most of whom were already in the United States."
 
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You rob a liquor store with your 5 year old kid, law enforcement sends them to separate holding facilities.

You sneak into America with your 5 year old kid, law enforcement sends them to separate holding facilities.

Moral of the story: don’t break the law.

Asylums seekers are not illegal immigrants, they turn themselves in. These people are not criminals they are running from criminals.
 
You rob a liquor store with your 5 year old kid, law enforcement sends them to separate holding facilities.

You sneak into America with your 5 year old kid, law enforcement sends them to separate holding facilities.

Moral of the story: don’t break the law.

Asylums seekers are not illegal immigrants, they turn themselves in. These people are not criminals they are running from criminals.
Mexico is not an asylum nation.
 
You rob a liquor store with your 5 year old kid, law enforcement sends them to separate holding facilities.

You sneak into America with your 5 year old kid, law enforcement sends them to separate holding facilities.

Moral of the story: don’t break the law.

Asylums seekers are not illegal immigrants, they turn themselves in. These people are not criminals they are running from criminals.
They should seek asylum in one of many countries between them and the US border.
 
You rob a liquor store with your 5 year old kid, law enforcement sends them to separate holding facilities.

You sneak into America with your 5 year old kid, law enforcement sends them to separate holding facilities.

Moral of the story: don’t break the law.

Asylums seekers are not illegal immigrants, they turn themselves in. These people are not criminals they are running from criminals.
They should seek asylum in one of many countries between them and the US border.
Funny how the left mock America being the greatest nation yet here we are talking about people who know better.
 
You rob a liquor store with your 5 year old kid, law enforcement sends them to separate holding facilities.

You sneak into America with your 5 year old kid, law enforcement sends them to separate holding facilities.

Moral of the story: don’t break the law.

Asylums seekers are not illegal immigrants, they turn themselves in. These people are not criminals they are running from criminals.
Asylum seekers are just the latest in the tidal wave of invaders that have been coached in a new way to lie their way into America. They're the same trash from the same shit holes as before. They're just gaming the system in a new way.
 
You rob a liquor store with your 5 year old kid, law enforcement sends them to separate holding facilities.

You sneak into America with your 5 year old kid, law enforcement sends them to separate holding facilities.

Moral of the story: don’t break the law.

Asylums seekers are not illegal immigrants, they turn themselves in. These people are not criminals they are running from criminals.

Just because they say they are asylum seekers does not make them so. Until proven they are breaking the law and policy is (and has always been) separating them from their children. Just like American citizen criminals. Do you know that the these illegal aliens are actually bringing their children or are they trafficking in child prostitution which is fairly common in some areas of the world? Until proven it is in the best interest of the child to be separated. Please stop believing radical, leftist, Democrat propaganda.
 
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You rob a liquor store with your 5 year old kid, law enforcement sends them to separate holding facilities.

You sneak into America with your 5 year old kid, law enforcement sends them to separate holding facilities.

Moral of the story: don’t break the law.

Asylums seekers are not illegal immigrants, they turn themselves in. These people are not criminals they are running from criminals.

They are not all asylum seekers, in fact the large majority don’t qualify for asylum and did not turn themselves in but were caught and arrested.
 

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