The media and political class become more and more outraged over the Trump administration’s decision to detain and prosecute immigrants illegally crossing the border.
Lost in the debate is any acknowledgment that President Obama’s administration also used detention facilities.
Current U.S. immigration laws, when enforced, have the consequence of temporarily separating adults who arrive with children into separate detention facilities in order to prosecute the adults.
The policy of prosecuting immigrants for crossing the border illegally has been in place for multiple administrations. The Obama administration prosecuted half a million illegal immigrants and similarly separated families in the process. So did the Bush administration.
Personal accounts from immigration lawyers tell a tale of Obama being equally concerned about unaccompanied minors traveling to the border and wanting to create a deterrent.
Photos of border detention facilities from the Obama-era, taken during 2014, look nearly identical to the ones taken during the Trump era.
You never see them, however. Here they are, taken in 2014 during a media tour of Obama-era detention facilities in Brownsville, Texas, and Nogales, Arizona.
It’s uncanny how this story becomes an avalanche in two days. From the halls of the US congress to the US cable news to the National Can Media down to the local Calgary news.
It’s almost like the leftist politicians and the mass media were working off some kind of an agenda, or perhaps colluding, to discredit the President of the US and his administration.
They are colluding.. anything & everything related to the GOP and Trump is just pure vile and hatred. With it all being unleashed at identical times.
GDP growth rate pushing >4%. That’s shit to you???
How is Canada’s GDP growth rate doing over the same period?
fk me who do you believe anymore … all about filling pockets … it’s time north america to revolt
You certainly don’t believe the TV news or any of their online incarnations.
Yes, it’s been time to revolt for quite awhile but there are yet too many people with their heads buried and further yet there are too many people that think we can reason with these idiots.
…Obama loving / Trump hating CNN and CBC have certainly filed these pics in the garbage.
#Propaganda
Sorry to say i have no time to listen to any of the American stations bullshit its to the point of being a little ridiculous —rather watch Cartoons
Dumped both CNN and Fox News a few months back and haven’t had one minute of regret.
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