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In reply to the discussion: Some help please. A friend keeps bellyaching about how President Obama put kids in cages. [View all]Demsrule86
(68,552 posts)11. No President did not put kids in cages...families were no separated.
And you could google this by the way...
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Some help please. A friend keeps bellyaching about how President Obama put kids in cages. [View all]
calimary
Jun 2018
OP
Temporary before finding other places...different thing entirely...these were unacompanied minors...
Demsrule86
Jun 2018
#15
It is the case...and we can certainly explain the differences...and Obama is a Democrat.
Demsrule86
Jun 2018
#27
I don't agree with that...no one is perfect and when the GOP is lying you have to explain.
Demsrule86
Jun 2018
#35
no it doesn't. Trump's policy and intention was to separate children from their parents
still_one
Jun 2018
#40
More likely some people feel the need to attack a great Democratic president who was hamstrung by
Demsrule86
Jun 2018
#16
Jeh Johnson was Homeland Security Chief under Obama. He's been all over CNN/NBC/MSNBC
hlthe2b
Jun 2018
#17
Cages is a red herring it's the kidnapping that's the issue, don't let then change the subject
uponit7771
Jun 2018
#24
100,000 people kept prisoner by the Navy...concentration camps and you want to talk about Obama...
Demsrule86
Jun 2018
#25
"I don't know whether children were put in cages during the Obama Administration
cyclonefence
Jun 2018
#31
It's been a couple of days and I just wanted to thank everybody who responded.
calimary
Jun 2018
#36