Kids in cages in border facilities are at 700 capacity. The same people who criticized how immigrant children were treated under the Trump administration and claimed Trump put kids in cages are now okay with the Biden administration doing the same thing.
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The Obama-Biden administration as photos reveal used so-called cages to detain unaccompanied migrant children at the southern border.
Cages at the border. The back-and-forth left many viewers confused. Here are the facts. When migrant families and unaccompanied children were crossing the border from Mexico by the hundreds of thousands in 2018 and 2019 they were often jammed into.
The report notes that many more are being turned back every day and that there are now so many trying to cross the border that the US is on track this. They built cages Trump said pointing to Biden. Video of the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen being questioned last year over whether migrant children at the border with Mexico are being kept in cages.
Says the Obama administration didnt lock people up in cages. When they crossed the border into Texas and turned themselves into the Border Patrol they were detained in different cages. If playback doesnt begin shortly try restarting your device.
Im suggesting that Kamala Harris said that this facility putting people in this facility is a human rights abuse being committed by the United States government and that Joe Biden said there have been horrifying scenes at the border of kids being kept in cages. The cages arent wholly new. During the Obama administration unaccompanied immigrant children who arrived at the border were kept in them as well as this tour by Representative Jim McGovern shows.
Wheres the media. When children are ripped from their parents and put in cages immigration justice is on the ballot. The crisis at the border continues to accelerate as CBS News reported Tuesday that there are now more than 13000 unaccompanied migrant children being held in prison like cells by US authorities.
The kids in cages narrative was echoed by many throughout the previous administration to highlight poor conditions at the southern border. The Obama administration not the Trump administration built the cages that hold many immigrant children at the US-Mexico border. During the sharp exchange which was prompted by a question about the missing children posed by moderator Kristen Welker Trump and Biden fired allegations at each other about which administration started the family separation process who built the cages and others.
CBP is constructing a new facility to house minors. And cartels and theyre brought here and they used to use them to get into our country Trump said. Biden is reopening a surge facility first opened by Trump for teenagers who arrive at the border without their parents.
Whether you called those cages or chain-link partitions or anything else though thats not the situation at the border facility the Biden administration is reactivating. Obama Built the Cages At The Border. Children are brought here by coyotes.
The facility is expected to be huge the official noted and the plot of land is large enough for more than 35 football fields. 18000 kids in cages on the border vs 2600 at most during Trump era added by World Tribune on April 6 2021 View all posts by World Tribune. It is true that Trump administration immigration policies involved separating migrant children from their parents and detaining them in cages a practice halted by a federal judge in 2018.
