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>Kids were being separated then Incorrect; the story you linked describes unaccompanied minors. Separating families is solely the doing of the Trump Administra
by cr1895 8y ago
>Kids were being separated then
Incorrect; the story you linked describes unaccompanied minors. Separating families is solely the doing of the Trump Administration.
"Detaining child border crossers was a policy during the Obama administration, where Breitbart Texas exclusively reported on the conditions in which unaccompanied minors were being packed into crowded cells and holding facilities."
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/03/us/politics/new-us-effort-to-aid-unaccompanied-child-migrants.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/03/us/politics/new-us-effort...
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/17/us/us-sets-up-crisis-shelter-as-children-flow-across-border-alone.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/17/us/us-sets-up-crisis-shel...
>Were Microsoft employees sleeping when reports of these sorts of situations where being reported in 2014? Or was it more acceptable then because it was a different president?
The key issue here which is different from what you suggest is the same in 2014 is that the Trump administration separates children from their parents. The Obama administration, rightly or wrongly, detained unaccompanied minors. The Trump administration is detaining children who had their parents with them, and in cases deporting parents without their children. Surely you see this as a different situation??
- dawnerd 8y agoI think the part people like OP are missing is if it was happening as they say then, it doesn't make it right now. They're just shifting blame for something they can be a part of stopping.
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- SlowRobotAhead 8y agoSort of. More like if you are outraged now but not then, if it is only covered now and not then, if “reasonable” people only care now that it can be attributed to BadManTheyDontLike... that’s dishonest.