Obama did not have a policy to separate families, a No Tolerance policy. Traffickers, drug smugglers, etc were separated from the children they brought in, and adults that could not be established as the children's parents when caught. NOT parents from their own children.
In defending its "zero tolerance" border policy that has caused the separation of families, the Trump administration has argued that the Obama and Bush administrations did this too. That's misleading. Experts say there were some separations under previous administrations, but no blanket policy...
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