Did President Obama separate families at the border? No!

[HaShev]

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.

OBAMA had the kids in prison like gated fenced barred facilities without education, health, and excercise. Most kids came in without escort while a small portion were seperated just like now, your MSM fails to mention those facilities hold only about 10% who were seperated and fail to mention they get reunited when processed back or guardian is found. It's all a propaganda publicity stunt because the house seats look less then promising for the dems pulling all cheats and punches it can to win the house seats.

 

[Lakhota]

You are again, a liar. bath house butt boy did and it's the law. The difference is that the filthy liberals didn't enforce the law. Funny how liberals do not want laws enforced so they give the criminals enough chances until they finally shoot up a school and then the lib bastards want to take away the guns from people who had nothing to do with it!

Bottom Line: President Obama did NOT separate families at the border.

Sessions vows to prosecute all illegal border crossers and separate children from their parents

YOU ARE A LIAR!

Obama separated 5600 from their families in just three months during 2015... The pictures you all used were DURING OBAMA'S TIME...

Only if the parents were being criminally prosecuted. However, Trump is declaring ALL of them criminals. See the difference...?

 

[tycho1572]

Poor kids....

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Poor kids....

Was that Obama or ISIS keeping kids in cages?

 

[tycho1572]

I'm glad they're being treated much better under the Trump administration.

 

[tycho1572]

Poor kids....

Was that Obama or ISIS keeping kids in cages?

Sadly, it was Obama.
I can see why someone might think it was ISIS.

 

[Lakhota]

Poor kids....

Was that Obama or ISIS keeping kids in cages?

You mean unaccompanied minors who were in temporary custody at the border? No families were separated - unless the parents were being criminally prosecuted. Trump has declared them ALL criminals.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Awww....look at the mighty O:

Mexican kids held for months as punishment for border-crossing

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Just had to start another thread?
As if the other 20 doesn't have this covered.

Did any of the "other 20" threads address the fact that President Obama did NOT separate families at the border?

You're embarrassing yourself.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

So sad:

Obama administration officials are rushing to explain photos from 2014 that went viral this weekend showing locked-up immigrant children

 

[MisterBeale]

There is no law that says children must be separated from their parents at the border.

The Trump administration’s separation of families at the border, explained

This post and this source is a lie.

If the people apprehended have no prior record of trying to cross illegally, they will be quickly reunited with their children and given the chance to turn around a GO HOME!


The Truth about Separating Kids
Separating Kids at Border: The Truth | National Review
"The Trump administration isn’t changing the rules that pertain to separating an adult from the child. Those remain the same. Separation happens only if officials find that the adult is falsely claiming to be the child’s parent, or is a threat to the child, or is put into criminal proceedings.

It’s the last that is operative here. The past practice had been to give a free pass to an adult who is part of a family unit. The new Trump policy is to prosecute all adults. The idea is to send a signal that we are serious about our laws and to create a deterrent against re-entry. (Illegal entry is a misdemeanor, illegal re-entry a felony.)

When a migrant is prosecuted for illegal entry, he or she is taken into custody by the U.S. Marshals. In no circumstance anywhere in the U.S. do the marshals care for the children of people they take into custody. The child is taken into the custody of HHS, who cares for them at temporary shelters.

The criminal proceedings are exceptionally short, assuming there is no aggravating factor such as a prior illegal entity or another crime. The migrants generally plead guilty, and they are then sentenced to time served, typically all in the same day, although practices vary along the border. After this, they are returned to the custody of ICE.

If the adult then wants to go home, in keeping with the expedited order of removal that is issued as a matter of course, it’s relatively simple. The adult should be reunited quickly with his or her child, and the family returned home as a unit. In this scenario, there’s only a very brief separation.

Where it becomes much more of an issue is if the adult files an asylum claim. In that scenario, the adults are almost certainly going to be detained longer than the government is allowed to hold their children.

That’s because of something called the Flores Consent Decree from 1997. It says that unaccompanied children can be held only 20 days. A ruling by the Ninth Circuit extended this 20-day limit to children who come as part of family units. So even if we want to hold a family unit together, we are forbidden from doing so.

The clock ticking on the time the government can hold a child will almost always run out before an asylum claim is settled. The migrant is allowed ten days to seek an attorney, and there may be continuances or other complications. . . .

<snip>

". . . . If someone is determined to come here illegally, the decent and safest thing would be to leave the child at home with a relative and send money back home. Because we favor family units over single adults, we are creating an incentive to do the opposite and use children to cut deals with smugglers.

4) Congress can fix this. Congress can change the rules so the Flores consent decree will no longer apply, and it can appropriate more money for family shelters at the border. This is an obvious thing to do that would eliminate the tension between enforcing our laws and keeping family units together. The Trump administration is throwing as many resources as it can at the border to expedite the process, and it desperately wants the Flores consent decree reversed. Despite some mixed messages, if the administration had its druthers, family units would be kept together and their cases settled quickly.

The missing piece here is Congress, but little outrage will be directed at it, and probably nothing will be done. And so our perverse system will remain in place and the crisis at the border will rumble on."

Imagine What Would Have Happened If Hillary Clinton Had Won

 

[ricechickie]

Awww....look at the mighty O:

Mexican kids held for months as punishment for border-crossing

Teenagers traveling alone are not the same as young children being brought by families seeking asylum.

 

[HaShev]

You are again, a liar. bath house butt boy did and it's the law. The difference is that the filthy liberals didn't enforce the law. Funny how liberals do not want laws enforced so they give the criminals enough chances until they finally shoot up a school and then the lib bastards want to take away the guns from people who had nothing to do with it!

Bottom Line: President Obama did NOT separate families at the border.

Sessions vows to prosecute all illegal border crossers and separate children from their parents

YOU ARE A LIAR!

Obama separated 5600 from their families in just three months during 2015... The pictures you all used were DURING OBAMA'S TIME...

Only if the parents were being criminally prosecuted. However, Trump is declaring ALL of them criminals. See the difference...?

First off all it's not Trump, it's prexisting laws that Dems themselves help create, that declare them criminals. All you did was admit the Obama administration barely enforced them.
Your logic is complaining that all off a sudden the people who steal your car are being declared criminals when prior administrations those car thieves went uncontested/not round up.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Poor kids....

Was that Obama or ISIS keeping kids in cages?

Sadly, it was Obama.
I can see why someone might think it was ISIS.

Maybe it's a Muslim thing?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Poor kids....

Was that Obama or ISIS keeping kids in cages?

You mean unaccompanied minors who were in temporary custody at the border? No families were separated - unless the parents were being criminally prosecuted. Trump has declared them ALL criminals.

You mean unaccompanied minors who were in temporary custody at the border?

You thinks it's okay to keep kids in cages? You heartless bastard.

Trump has declared them ALL criminals.

Thanks to previous administrations letting an uninterrupted flood into the country, we now have to crack down.

Spread the word. Don't come to America. It's not safe anymore.

 

[tycho1572]

Poor kids....

Was that Obama or ISIS keeping kids in cages?

Sadly, it was Obama.
I can see why someone might think it was ISIS.

Maybe it's a Muslim thing?

Could be.
I'm just glad Trump was elected to stop what democrats were doing to these poor children.

 

[HaShev]

Maybe it's a Muslim thing?

IT looks like Chuck Schumer is ordering his lunch again.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

You are again, a liar. bath house butt boy did and it's the law. The difference is that the filthy liberals didn't enforce the law. Funny how liberals do not want laws enforced so they give the criminals enough chances until they finally shoot up a school and then the lib bastards want to take away the guns from people who had nothing to do with it!

Bottom Line: President Obama did NOT separate families at the border.

Sessions vows to prosecute all illegal border crossers and separate children from their parents

Frankly, I don't care that families are separated at the border.

I really don't.

Why should I?

 

[Penelope]

Not only did Obama separate families, he put children in dog cages.

Its all "Trump" to separate families, not the Democrats , Proof.

Obama did not separate families.

 

[HaShev]

Last time I checked, Dems were part of this gov't and were responsible for these situations by not forming better solutions or enforcements or walls to prevent them entering for this to happen.
IT'S ONLY AN ADMISSION that the Dem policy to obstruct and resist has failed as a policy or tactic and every complaint is admission that Dems have failed this country through lack of participating in this Gov't and even sabotaging it.
Kvetching is not a strategy and offers no solution.