Kids have been separated from illegal border crossing parents throughout several administrations, but we are seeing much more coverage of these situations during Trump’s administration. What all is different as far as the facility conditions and separating kids during Trump's administration, compared to previous ones?
Kids, cages, and separation
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signalmankenneth
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This conversation has been going on for a week now and it's been explained by multiple posters and you still too thick to get it? You are a typical uneducated trumpster. Anybody with a criminal record is locked up and when they're locked up in jail they cannot have their children with them. Anybody that seeking Asylum or accused of crossing the border illegally does not have to have their children taken from them that is a choice your scumbag of a president made. Dear God is this going to get through your thick skull now?
I am looking for specific differences between Trump's administration and earlier administrations that would explain the increased media attention.
Are you unable to list any specific differences?
Are you unable to list any specific differences?
signalmankenneth
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Remember when Obama detained asylum seekers and JPP liberals were silent?
I do.
I do.
THEY SOUGHT ASYLUM - OBAMA CAGED THEM - THIS IS THEIR STORY
The immigration debate intensified a couple of years ago during the Obama Administration when a flood of women and children came across the U.S.-Mexico border.
Obama didn't know how to handle the influx, so he detained these women and children in three family centers: two in Texas; one in Pennsylvania. There were more than a thousand people in these centers, waiting to know if they'd be allowed to stay in the country.
Maria Rosa Lopez and her son were some of thousands of people who fled from Central America to the U.S. in 2014 to escape domestic abuse — which is considered a credible fear that can warrant an asylum claim.
From Guatemala City, she and her son crossed another border into Mexico and then took a bus north to Monterrey, close to the northern Mexico-U.S. border. "I paid someone to take us across on a boat. It was night time and we slept in the desert on the U.S. side. There were other moms and their kids there too. A Brazilian woman asked me if she could sleep next to us," Lopez says.
The next morning, immigration officers woke them and took them to the Karnes detention center outside of San Antonio, Texas.
Lopez wanted asylum so she and her son could start their lives over in the U.S. She didn't know what to expect when she got on American soil, but she didn't expect to be housed in this facility with no word on when she'd be released.
"I was desperate when we got there. It was hard to see my child crying and he was asking a lot of questions," she recalls. "He knew it was a detention center and he wanted to know how long we were going to be there."
But she didn't know either. "No one was answering questions. I talked with people who had been there for six, eight months, and it was very depressing." she says. "Often my son couldn't fall asleep, we had bunk beds. He was on top of me but he would crawl down and wanted to be with me."
Denise Gilman, one of Maria's former lawyers, says the Karnes detention facility "feels very much like a prison" with "cinderblock walls, clanging doors, X-ray machines all over the place, buzzers that you have to use to get in and out to go see your 9-year-old client and his mom."
Gilman, director of the immigration clinic at the University of Texas Law School, says these women and children are seeking asylum, but they're treated like criminals.
https://www.npr.org/2016/03/20/471148251/when-asylum-seeking-women-and-children-immigrants-are-welcomed-like-criminalsillegal-immigrant-parents-can-be-detained-children/
So you are not aware of any differences that I asked for in the opening post?
Those families that did were not separated in most cases.
SmarterthanYou
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When Obama was president, the kids arrived without their parents. Can you understand how that was different? Can you think what a difference it was for families? probably not.
Neither are they being separated now "in most cases". But don't let that stop you, hypocrite.
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The difference is that Obama didn’t have a booming economy or an IG report highlighting previous administrations abuses of the FBI to try to ignore