Fact Checker: Trump digs in on false claim that he stopped Obama’s family separation policy
By Salvador Rizzo Salvador Rizzo Reporter for The Fact Checker Email Bio Follow April 10 at 3:00 AM “President Obama had child separation. Take a look. The press knows it, you know it, we all know it. I didn’t have — I’m the one that stopped it. President Obama had child separation. … President Obama separated children. They had child separation. I was the one that changed it, okay?” This is a Four Pinocchio claim, yet Trump keeps repeating it when he’s pressed on family separations.
The Trump administration has identified more than 2,700 children covered by a court order mandating family reunifications. But the real number is unknown and could include thousands more. The zero-tolerance approach is worlds apart from the Obama- and Bush-era policy of separating children from adults at the border only in limited circumstances, such as when officials suspected human trafficking or another kind of danger to the child or when false claims of parentage were made.
However, DHS officials said they referred to prosecutors an average of 21 percent of “amenable adults” who were detained between ports of entry from fiscal 2010 to 2016.
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