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dalton99a

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6. To put it into fast-food context, that's a quadruple whopper, with extra cheese.
Tue Apr 9, 2019, 05:16 PM
Apr 2019
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/enterthefray/la-ol-trump-border-obama-family-separations-20190409-story.html
Trump lies yet again about Obama and separating families at the border
By Scott Martelle
Apr 09, 2019 | 11:35 AM

President Trump repeated a short time ago a falsehood he’s pushed several times before, that President Obama had a policy of separating migrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border and that Trump had ended the practice.

To put it into fast-food context, that’s a quadruple whopper, with extra cheese.

During the Obama administration, family separations were rare and predicated upon two conditions: whether border officials felt the parents or guardians posed a threat to the children, or whether the adults, under U.S. immigration law, had to be detained based on prior criminal convictions.

Standard procedure, both in the civil immigration context and in the domestic criminal justice context, is to not incarcerate children with adults (yes, there are exceptions).

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