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There are essentially three policy issues that have become conflated in recent days: unaccompanied minors at the border, separating children from their parents at the border and families seeking asylum. We break down what those issues are and what it all means....

The Trump administration insists that this is not a new policy. Children have been placed in foster care when their parents were criminally charged with an immigration violation.

"The underlying policies ... have not changed," White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller said Tuesday.

The policies about separating children from their families were in place during the Obama administration. They go back to the administration of President George W. Bush.

Why the confusion? One reason: The administration's new 'zero tolerance' policy. Because of the "zero tolerance" policy, there are more separations happening


In this June 18, 2014 file photo, two female detainees sleep in a holding cell, as the children are separated by age group and gender, as hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant children are being processed and held at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center in Nogales, Ariz. The photos were taken by The Associated Press in 2014, when President Barack Obama was in office.

You called that particular cartoon a lie but when it's presented to you as fact, you shift gears.

"In 2014, we saw an enormous spike compared to what usually happens every year, in the number of kids crossing alone into the United States," she said. "And we didn't have enough shelter facilities, because we had a huge increase, so kids ended up piling up in Border Patrol lock-ups, which are no places for children."

"What the Obama administration did, which is what the law requires, is to find shelter facilities for those kids, which were put together by the Department of Health and Human Services. So the goal was to get kids out of the Border Patrol, into proper care by HHS, and then HHS is supposed to release them to the least restrictive setting, and in more than 80% of the cases, that was their parents who were already in the United States."

"This policy is new, cruel, and unprecedented," Favreau tweeted. "It was not an Obama policy. It was not a Bush policy. It was not a Clinton policy. That is a fact. And that is what all of us — Democrats and Republicans — should want changed as soon as humanly possible."

Jon Favreau wrote:

"This policy is new, cruel, and unprecedented," Favreau tweeted. "It was not an Obama policy. It was not a Bush policy. It was not a Clinton policy. That is a fact. And that is what all of us — Democrats and Republicans — should want changed as soon as humanly possible."

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A Twitter Fail Reveals That Media Narratives about Obama Still Trump the Truth

Why were we treating children worse than hardened criminals? Former Obama speechwriter (and current star of the Pod Save America franchise) Jon Favreau spoke for the outraged masses when he tweeted this:

[bogus tweet omitted]

Unfortunately for Favreau and his ilk, this isn’t “happening now.” It turns out that the picture is from 2014, when the Obama administration still ran U.S. immigration policy. In the lingo of Twitter, that’s what you call a “self-own.”

Did you see a picture of a “prison bus for babies”?....

Yes, I know that much of the nation is in the grips of Trump Derangement Syndrome, but does that fully explain the gullibility on display here?...

This is what happens when narrative trumps truth: Even responsible people are primed to believe lies.

Cecilia Munoz wrote:

"And we didn't have enough shelter facilities, because we had a huge increase, so kids ended up piling up in Border Patrol lock-ups, which are no places for children."

"What the Obama administration did, which is what the law requires, is to find shelter facilities for those kids

US eyes quitting United Nations human rights council

The Trump administration has exited various global agreements, but didn't confirm plans to quit the UN group

Is the United States planning an “imminent” withdrawal from the United Nations Human Rights Council?

According to an anonymous source that spoke with Reuters, it’s only a matter of time before the U.S. leaves the organization.

US eyes quitting United Nations human rights council

The amorality of this (and much else related) is worth fighting, tooth and nail.

US eyes quitting United Nations human rights council

The Human Rights Council was created in 2006 to supersede its corrupt predecessor, the UN Human Rights Commission, which at its end counted six of the most politically repressive regimes — Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Libya, China and Vietnam — as members

When Trump “slammed the door” on Syrian refugees, liberals said the Statue of Liberty wept. They said it was a betrayal of American values, and a dramatic reversal of the Obama administration’s longstanding openness and compassion.

They were wrong. The vast majority of Americans has absolutely no idea that the “compassionate” Obama administration admitted less than 2,000 Syrian refugees in the first five years of the Syrian Civil War. Millions of men, women, and children were fleeing their homes, and the U.S. opened its doors to almost none of them.