CNN Anchor Asks Senator: Did You Raise Your Voice About Family Separations under Obama?’

Black folks have too many issues to concern ourselves with issues that don't affect us......Mexicans have to hold your own nuts.....Because when they get over here they practice white supremacy too.......That's not our fault yall took chances with yall babies to get over here.....The Mexicans need to deal with their government and its issues over there. We need to keep and save our energy for our fight/fights......Sorry but it's not my (our) problems.......

Of course not. Everything that Obama did was perfect. President Trump is fixing all of Obama's screw ups. He was too busy having WH parties with rappers. My President has Made America Great Again! We have the lowest unemployment rate for black people in 40 years. Don't listen to the liberals. Get your money. Separated Mexican kids aren't my problem. They don't like blacks anyway. How many illegal aliens joined the Black Lives Matter movement? They can put together their own Mexican Lives Matter group and stop jumping fences and crawling through tunnels to get to America.

NOPE.

Trumps 1st lie/spin:
There's no policy to take kids from their parents."

2nd spin: "Yeah, there's a policy to take kids from their parents, but it's the Democrats fault."

3rd spin: Congress must solve this problem

Today, "Trump will reverse his policy"

Trump's a malignant lying sack of sh/t.

There you have it.

The difference that Obama TEMPORARILY detained unaccompanied minors until relatives/and or parents were able to identify and retrieve the children. And they weren't getting prosecuted like criminals. And another point. Obama is not the damn president no more. Get off his nuts.

Trump is basically trying to make America Nazi Germany. And its happening right before our eyes. NOW its illegal immigrants, NEXT it will be anybody with African blood etc...This IS everybody problem. This is an American problem.

And where the hell are the missing girls. They seem not to be accounted for. The government is selling them kids to the highest bidder. Sex trafficking and organ selling.

WE ARE NOT BLIND!

Yes we are. Crying over the children of a group of people who hate us. We need to protect our own. Where are the missing black girls? Where's the outcry about our children who are endangered? Those Mexican kids are getting treated better in confinement than they were walking across the desert barefoot to get to America.

The issue I have with the Media is they reported all this back then and explained the reasons why, Children were not separated from their parents, they were sent here because word spread that if they got here by a certain date they would be considered dreamers and would not be deported that is why there was an influx of unaccompanied minors crossing the border. What this administration did was charge the parents with a crime and then classified the children as unaccompanied. It is not the same. The media is the reason this fool is in the Whitehouse kept giving him pass after pass because he was good for ratings.

Because what the Obama administration did was not the same as this mess.

I would agree with you, if those crossing the boarders were Mexican 96% of them are not.

**These folks, in particular aren't Mexican at all and Mexico is on the continent of North America.**

lolol
When you know, you know!

Deflection is all it is. People were treated humane then and inhumane now.

Say that!!!!

When all else fails, speak in circles..

You do realize that these people aren't from Mexico right? They are from Venezuela.

Two totally different places and cultures. Get your facts right before you talk shyt about people.

We can all answer that question? Its NO they didnt... Its a fake issue that Democrats wanted to politicize... Like the guy walking around on fathers day they were using Pictures from 2014 showing people... It was fake.... But the drama was effective because the people bit...
Why are they not saying anything about the sorry poor excuse for parents trying to do a crime with their children... What god awful Parents.. if they were black everybody would be on the Illegal Aliens...
Now why did they not say anything about Bill CLinton keeping all those Haitians in Guatanomo Bay... Bill Clinton had AIDS camps... and they didnt even give some of the extremely sick Medicine and they really did DIE.... The Democrats are frauds fakes. Supporting illegal Immigration but wont stand with black lives matter... or prison reform for Americans.
Oh wells they send the illegal children to the minority sides of town to help further mess up the education system. They take tax dollars away from American kids to teach them the language etc.

Neither do i because if the tables was turned......we wouldn't be treated half as nice in their country, so sorry not sorry?

The Democratic Party uses these type of tactics whenever they feel their voting block is slipping... They come up with a polarizing race issues to divide... because a lot of people are looking at them differently...... So they are like Ohhhh look at the mean border patrol they are seperating families of illegal ALiens and then they fail to tell the full truth that the people leave the kids. Dont pick up the children and refuse to show up for the court date. They break the law go around the law and thats a privilege that Liberals and even some Republicans dont mind.

I agree

Does it matter where they're from? If so, why?

Even still, we got tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooomany issues of our own to put any energy into their issues.....

I agree......the first thing came to my mind was what about all the homeless American family's that are still on the street and starving, meanwhile in the so-called concentration camps kids are playing soccer and eating three Square meals a day.

I guess I'm just not that intimidated by immigrants. I welcome them over. Some of them have skills we can use in America. Especially if we can get them to properly assimilate. People saying we would be treated like shyt if we tried to get into their country. Of course we would. Thats why they are trying to leave their country. We as American are supposed to be better than all those other third world countries. Not act like one. I think we are taking the Us vs Them thing to far.

Also, Trump or someone in his administration can't spell. It's "SEPARATION," stupid. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ea082a95ead6d1b97c3576383b06ec4b8b06f0e5cf738707ae7b2dcc9b8ee8f4.png

Look I'm not trying to see nobody in harms way...bu we got our own problems.

Blacks have the highest poverty rate, 27%
They kill our black men like animals in a safari hunt
Over 2 million of blacks in prison working for about 10 cents per hr
We the majority of us get corporate jobs they pay us 20 less

The day ain't long enough to go on.

Free all blacks locked up on petty ass drug charges.

And I ain't about to start pretending I am.

Think when it comes down to it, this is the elephant in the room. People are practicing self preservation as if America is going treat blacks better if Hispanics don't exist in large numbers. Lol, its nonsense. People just really don't like Mexicans and instead of black people just saying that, they pretend its about them only caring about black people. Meanwhile somewhere in America a black man is killing another black man for no reason at all, but that don't matter cause we are all we got........smh. I am all for black pride, but we need to stop pretending to be naive about life. Just because we are under the gun doesn't mean we have to look past other t people of different races getting done dirty. And it doesn't mean we have to pretend every black man is our brother, when some of these fools would kill your whole family without even blinking......

The black race needs to make their minds up, are we soldiers or victims? You can't be both. Stop straddling the fence. Either be grown ups and stop being scared of white people or kneel down like cowards and keep pining for their affections by siding with their racist actions to preserver their own racial domination.......

Are you at the library reading this? Are you broke down a pay for internet through your mobile carrier?

Can someone explain to me why it is not ok to despise Trump? When he stole the election?

The black race needs to make their minds up, are we soldiers or victims? You can't be both. Stop straddling the fence. Either be grown ups and stop being scared of white people or kneel down like cowards and keep pining for their affections by siding with their racist actions to preserver their own racial domination......
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Say it louder for the people in the back.....

You know damn well Asylum is a word white liberal lawyers taught these people. FOH

She was trembling lol got to commend her for having the courage to hold someone other than Trump accountable. Especially at CNN

Can someone send me a source that Obama separated families & kids? Does anybody have that source?

I think they should be deported but with their children. But these kids will likely not be reunited with their parents because this inept government doesn't know how to do it. So welcome Dreamers class of 2030!

Without their parents.

Fake News is not truth idiot.....Nuff said to you on that!

Shout-out to all my Black people with a critical thought process:I encouraged you to keep the open mind you have and keep doing your research using independent sources....."

You've read the false account, so now for the TRUTH:

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No, Donald Trump’s separation of immigrant families was not Barack Obama’s policy

By John Kruzel on Tuesday, June 19th, 2018 at 7:32 a.m.

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In this photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people who’ve been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, sit in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas, June 17, 2018. (via AP)

Critics of the Trump administration’s separating of families illegally crossing the U.S. border with Mexico have characterized the practice as a distinctly cruel feature of Donald Trump’s presidency.

But some Republican commentators argue the policy is essentially a continuation of previous administrations.

"You know what's ironic? It's the same way Barack Obama did it," conservative commentator Matt Schlapp said during the June 15 broadcast of Fox News' America's Newsroom. "This is the problem with all of these things, the outrage you see coming from the left. There wasn't outrage over Barack Obama separating kids from adults."

While the Obama administration's immigration approach was not without controversy, it’s simply untrue to say he had a policy of separating families.

Trump policy

Let’s recap what the Trump administration is doing, before turning to Obama’s handling of immigration.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions in April announced a "zero-tolerance" policy, meaning every person caught crossing the border illegally would be referred for federal prosecution.

A good number of these people are adult migrants traveling with children. By law, when adults are detained and criminally prosecuted, their children cannot be housed with them in jail. Instead, kids are placed in a Department of Health and Human Services shelter until they can be released to a legal guardian.

Some 2,000 children have been separated from the adults they were traveling with across the U.S. border, according to the latest figures from the Department of Homeland Security. The children were separated from 1,940 adults from April 19 through May 31 as a result of border-crossing prosecutions.

Obama policy

Immigration experts we spoke to said Obama-era policies did lead to some family separations, but only relatively rarely, and nowhere near the rate of the Trump administration. (A Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman said the Obama administration did not count the number of families separated at the border.)

"Obama generally refrained from prosecution in cases involving adults who crossed the border with their kids," said Peter Margulies, an immigration law and national security law professor at Roger Williams University School of Law. "In contrast, the current administration has chosen to prosecute adult border-crossers, even when they have kids. That's a choice — one fundamentally different from the choice made by both Obama and previous presidents of both parties."

Denise Gilman, a law professor who directs the immigration clinic at the University of Texas School of Law, said immigration attorneys "occasionally" saw separated families under the Obama administration.

"However, these families were usually reunited quite quickly once identified," she said, "even if that meant release of a parent from adult detention."

In Trump’s case, family separations are a feature, not a bug, of the administration’s border policies, said David Fitzgerald, who co-directs the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies.

"The family separations are not the small-scale collateral consequences of a border policy, but rather, a deliberate initiative," he added.

Former Obama officials in recent interviews drew sharp distinctions between Trump’s policy and that of his predecessors.

The Trump administration's current approach is modeled after Operation Streamline, a 2005 program under the administration of George W. Bush, according to Obama spokesman Eric Schultz. The key difference, he said, is that while the 2005 program referred all illegal immigrants for prosecution, it made exceptions for adults traveling with children.

Jeh Johnson, Obama’s Homeland Security secretary from 2013 to the end of his presidency, said such separations occurred in rare cases, but never as a matter of policy.

"I can't say that it never happened. There may have been some exigent situation, some emergency," Johnson told NPR June 9. "There may have been some doubt about whether the adult accompanying the child was in fact the parent of the child. I can't say it never happened — but not as a matter of policy or practice. It's not something that I could ask our Border Patrol or our immigration enforcement personnel to do."

Obama’s top domestic policy adviser, Cecilia Muñoz, said the Obama administration briefly weighed the separation of parents from children, before deciding against it.

"I do remember looking at each other like, ‘We’re not going to do this, are we?’ We spent five minutes thinking it through and concluded that it was a bad idea," she told the New York Times. "The morality of it was clear — that’s not who we are."

Andrew Selee, president of the Migration Policy Institute, said that, as a deterrent, the Obama administration began prosecuting border-crossers who had already been deported at least once.

"But very few of those people crossed with children, so it didn’t become as visible an issue," he said. "There was some child separation and some pushback by immigrant advocacy groups around that, but the numbers were quite limited.

"The idea of prosecuting people who cross the border illegally the first time they are caught is entirely new," he added. "So we haven’t seen children separated from their parents on anything near this scale before."

The Obama administration’s immigration policy was not without controversy, to be sure.

In 2014, amid an influx of asylum seekers from Central America, the administration established large family detention centers to hold parents and children — potentially indefinitely — as a means of deterring other asylees. The practice eventually lost a legal challenge, resulting in a 2016 decision that stopped families from being detained together.

Schlapp told us that his claim referred to the fact that both Obama and Trump are bound by the same procedures prohibiting family detention.

However, Schlapp’s full comment gives the misleading impression that Trump is essentially continuing Obama’s policy, when in fact Trump’s zero tolerance policy is quite different.

Our ruling

Schlapp said the Trump administration’s policy of separating families is "the same way Barack Obama did it."

Obama’s immigration policy specifically sought to avoid breaking up families. While some children were separated from their parents under Obama, this was relatively rare, and occurred at a far lower rate than under Trump, where the practice flows from a zero tolerance approach to illegal border-crossings.

We rate this False.

Must be a hold-over from the teabagger party.

When stupid trump supporters can’t accept the truth they call it fake news. And you have the nerve to think Black people are to stupid to think for theirselves. You’re sad and stupid and probably not Black.

This all boils down to this: It's "a way" to do anything.......the Dump Admin has done it incorrectly.

Answer the question heffa!

Fist bump!

They traveled through Mexico & should have stayed there.

I remember when Katt Williams told a Mexican heckler "IF U LOVE MEXICO SO MUCH, GO THE FUGG BACK!!" They called him all sorts of kneegers & monkey's in the comment section.

No change to my disposition.....?????

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Siggghhhhhhh

But the flaw in your argument was this wasn't started by the democrats his administration was releasing pictures. And the media does what the media is supposed too do asked questions about them and then when they the inept administration could answer the simplest of questions the media looked into it more. And here we are. Then it became the democrats this and republicans, mind you they control both house and the senate and the executive branch. And they can't get anything done and they have controlled both of them for 4 years now.

Right and please! Their is wrong on BOTH sides... end of story!

This whole hate Trump and Melania and Ivanka and Barron and the other sons and the wives and their kids thing is just too much. Most Americans don't care anymore. He won the election. Get over it and vote in 2020. Sore losers and whiners. That's the Democratic party.

Then why are yall still here? Why do yall find your way on to these very stories that no one cares about.

Why in secret though. I guess just like him they don't want too own the shit they do.

How many black kids only eat one meal...at school? Some schools don't close on snow days because they know that's the only way the kids will eat. Sigh. I can't with this mess.

Somebody has to do it. They have gotten on my nerves with this nonsense.

Let go of your divisive mindset we are ALL human beings!

lol Thats exactly what you do to throw them off. Like when the ask you on some of those surveys... Who gives out their real political opinion in todays climate.

Black people need to stop killing each other. Its self inflicted no one else to blame.

Sounds like the hood in any American city to me. Only difference is black folks have to dodge gunfire. Where do we seek asylum???

Under Obama, the kids that were shipped off came to the US as unaccompanied minors, i.e., THEY CAME OVER BY THEMSELVES. NO PARENTS, ADULTS, etc. were with them. Now unaccompanied minors AND accompanied minors (ones who are with their moms and dads) are being shipped off to other states. Past administrations (Republican and Democrat) NEVER separated ACCOMPANIED minors. But don't let the facts get in the way Auntie...smdh.

You kinda do since they aren't Mexicans...lol

If he stole the election, so did Obama. Every president is elected through the electoral college. Do your research.

Does she still have a job at CNN?

Seems she gets her news from CNN, a site owned by democrats and the Clintons.

Including Sandra, they don't because it didn't happen under his or Bush Administration.....but these days facts doesn't matter.

Bingo!!!!!...They think I'm liberal too just because I'm Black.

I 'd never voted for a Republican until 2016.I was 19 in 2012 and voted for Obama! I was so happy to vote for President Trump and that was the best vote I'd ever casted.

I could not have said this better! Watch what people do,not what they say. Following blindly without thinking, will lead you straight to hell. You'll spend eternity wondering how you got there. I teach my children to think critically.

So sorry for them but dont finally get to the US and act like ur better than blacks. You know the routine, they do it wvery time.

Omg, without looking at your comment l just typed that.

That's odd I hardly respond to anything you posts you remind me of my angry uncle whose a rebel with out a cause whose still living off my grandmother whose been dead for 10 years.

You stay blaming Donald Trump.... for everything... Just like the idiots over there on NBC and CNN.... Its so sad they have a problem with ICE trying to control the border they are hiring for those that need a job... Yet they dont have any energy for the black teen who ran from the police and was murdered.... but they have all the energy in the world for the Illegal alien running across the border and from ICE placed in the detention center ....

End of story! You won't convince me otherwise

I agree. I know blacks who voted for him. Hey it’s their right.

Like I say..."Trump may not be perfect but he's PERFECT for what America needs right now." Obama was about the feminine principal and he was very lose about the law and discipline. He's actually a bona-fide socialist/communist and should have never been in office. Now daddy's home (Trump) and all of Obama's undisciplined children don't like it because Trump is trying to actually...FOLLOW THE LAW....! They covered for Obama because he was as corrupt as they come...this is what happens when people get positions because of "diversity engineering." Obama obeyed his white liberal masters well. But Trump is no slave and "the establishment" can't stand it....!

EXACTLY...!
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You wrote the perfect analogy to what is really going on!!!!

Stopped reading after the first sentence. Sorry hate non thinking politically correct nonsense. You consider yourself a black person and white people white......its not a derivative of a crayon its a world wide accepted description of a person of African heritage or descent. Now stop beating around the bush, and either combat my statement real a real thought provoked response. Or don't quote me.

Well, don't you think trump has something to do with all the hatred towards him? You can't call a whole race of people rapist and drug dealers? Calling NFL players SOB's because they are peacefully protesting sayin that a whole race of people shouldn't be allowed in this country because of their religious beliefs. Now I don't believe anyone should just be able to just walk into this country because I can't do the same to their country. But this president has truly divided this country since he took office. You didn't get this racist division bs coming from bush and the other republican presidents like you have with trump and his administration.