The Barbarian
Crabby Old White Guy
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So because a judge amends with a court order it’s not a law?
If it was the law, the judge wouldn't have issued an order to stop doing it.
CLAIM: President Bill Clinton passed a law in 1996 that separates parents and children entering the U.S. illegally and President Barack Obama enforced that law. Now, President Donald Trump is being demonized for enforcing it.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. There is no law that requires parents and children to be separated if they are entering the country illegally. Thousands of children were separated from their families after passing into the country illegally last year as a result of a temporary zero-tolerance policy under the Trump administration.
Clinton did not create a law separating families at the border
Trump defends conditions for detained migrant kids, blames Obama for family separations; fact checkers call foul
When questioned by interviewers about migrant children detained at the southern border, President Donald Trump has tried to steer the blame toward the previous administration, saying former President Barack Obama initiated the policy of separating those children from their caregivers, even though fact checkers have consistently found that claim to be false.
But, according to FactCheck.org, "previous administrations did not have a blanket policy to prosecute parents and separate them from their children." It was after the Trump administration announced its "zero-tolerance" immigration policy in April 2018, in which everyone who illegally entered the U.S. was referred for criminal prosecution, that thousands of migrant children were separated from their parents.
"We don’t want to separate families, but we don’t want families to come to the border illegally and attempt to enter into this country improperly," said then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions when the policy was announced. "The parents are subject to prosecution while children may not be. So, if we do our duty and prosecute those cases, then children inevitably for a period of time might be in different conditions."
In a May 2018 interview, then-White House Chief of Staff John Kelly told NPR a "big name of the game is deterrence" in stopping illegal immigration, and that family separations "would be a tough deterrent."
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PolitiFact found that family separations were rare during the Obama and Bush administrations and became "systematic" under Trump's zero-tolerance policy.
Trump defends conditions for detained migrant kids, blames Obama for family separations; fact checkers call foul
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