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President Donald Trump claimed his administration is doing a fantastic job at the countrys southern border days after a Justice Department lawyer argued against providing detained migrant children with toothbrushes or beds.
NBCs Chuck Todd discussed the horrifying conditions at some of the immigrant detainment facilities in the U.S. during an interview with the president that aired Sunday on Meet the Press.
I want to ask whats going down with the ... children in these migrant camps, Todd said. The stories are horrible, Mr. President. You have children without their parents. You have kids taking care of kids.
In response, Trump falsely suggested President Barack Obama enforced a similar family separation policy during his time in office.
This has been happening long before I got there, the president said. What weve done is weve ... ended separation. You know, under President Obama you had separation. I was the one that ended it.
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In reality, the Obama administration rarely separated families at the border. The Trump administration, however, implemented in April 2018 a zero-tolerance policy that systematically separated children from parents who illegally crossed into the U.S. from Mexico.
A federal judge ruled the process was unconstitutional in June 2018 and ordered the government to reunite the families. Days later, Trump signed an executive order to end the zero-tolerance policy.
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lunatica
(53,410 posts)cant see straight and is a mental midget. Yeah, the other one too.