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The Trump administration's zero-tolerance policy on border crossings, which included the systematic separation of children from adults.
The claim that “ created the first detention centers for children in ” is inaccurate: detention of immigrant children and families predates the Obama presidency, but the Obama administration significa...
Presidential administrations since 2000 have repeatedly shifted the executive branch’s use of prosecutorial discretion for C. §1325 (illegal entry), producing an oscillating pattern in which guidance,...
The claim that “ and separated 300,000 children from their families in imagination detention centers” is false and conflates distinct practices, time periods, and administrations: neither the Obama no...
Images and rhetoric invoking “Obama’s cages for children” compress a complex record: the did expand and operate large beginning in and housed thousands of asylum-seeking children with their parents in...
did expand and use — opening or operating facilities such as , and in response to a — and it sometimes separated children from adults for limited reasons like suspected trafficking, security risks, or...
The reporting assembled shows as a vocal proponent and advisor of the -era “” approach — he and other senior immigration officials advised leadership and he has publicly acknowledged recommending the ...
The three administrations show distinct patterns: focused enforcement on recent entrants and criminal cases and kept family detention limited, resulting in relatively higher overall removals earlier i...