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[quote=Anonymous][quote]OK. so this wasn't Trump's law, but it was existing law that they were enforcing, and so Trump signed an EO to no longer enforce the law?

When Nielsen said, "we don't have a policy of separating families" what she meant was that it wasn't a policy that Trump came up with. But that is disingenuous. It may not have been a policy Trump came up with, but it certainly is one that his administration seemed to relish and enforce with "zero tolerance". But it's a good try at spinning.

Here's what happened during the Obama years:

"There were occasionally instances where you would find a separated family — maybe like one every six months to a year — and that was usually because there had been some actual individualized concern that there was a trafficking situation or that the parent wasn’t actually the parent."

Once custody concerns were resolved, "there was pretty immediately reunification," Gilman told NBC News. "There were not 2,000 kids in two months — it’s not the same universe," she added.

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/immigration-bord...tion-separate-families-n884856[/quote]

The difference?  Obama let them all in:  "Catch and release".  Anyone with a child--parent or pervert--pretty much had a ticket of admission.  This is the problem.

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