healthmyths
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I'm always interested in facts, so I decided to click your link. Weirdly enough I didn't end up in an actual fact check by AP, but rather an opinion piece by someone on Fox news. Me still being interested in facts decided to click the link provided by the article. Again weirdly enough that link didn't lead me to AP either. Instead I ended up in an article by the Seatle Times. So I decided to read that article. Again weirdly enough the article contained a paragraph that the Fox News contributer ommited. Namely that although Obama did use those cages to on occasion separate children from their families but that it was only in high risk situations and not a general policy as under Trump.The Associated Press fact-checked Michelle Obama's Democratic National Convention speech after she condemned Trump for using "cages" to house migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border while failing to note that the same facilities were used during her husband's administration.
“She’s right that Trump’s now-suspended policy at the U.S.-Mexico border separated thousands of children from their families in ways that had not been done before but what she did not say is that the very same ‘cages’ were built and used in her husband’s administration, for the same purpose of holding migrant kids..."
The former first lady said Americans “watch in horror as children are torn from their families and thrown into cages"...but fails to mention Democrats had no problem with her husband's administration throwing kids into cages...before the Trump administration ever thought about doing so.
“Trump used facilities that were built during the Obama-Biden administration to house children at the border."
The AP then noted that photos famously circulated by Democrats “at the height of the controversy over Trump’s zero-tolerance policy at the border” were famously taken “in 2014 and depicted some of the thousands of unaccompanied children held by President Barack Obama.”
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Michelle Obama's DNC address fact-checked by AP over 'distorted' immigration talking point
The Associated Press fact-checked Michelle Obama's Democratic National Convention speech after she condemned Trump for using "cages" to house migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border while failing to note that the same facilities were used during her husband's administration.www.foxnews.com
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"I'm Michelle Obama, and the AP just proved that I am a lying shit bag who can' tbe trusted as far as you can throw my big ass....but the sheep / snowflakes will still believe it and defend me...just watch......"
So my fact check of your article citing a fact check by AP shows me you've been duped.
Try again some other time.
So you are ALWAYS interested in facts eh?
Thomas Homan, who was Obama’s executive associate director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement for nearly four years. He said that there are no cages but chain-link fencing that separates kids from adults, done for safety. “It’s chain link dividers that keeps children separate from unrelated adults. It’s about protecting children,” he said.
He cited one Democratic chairman who asked a Trump official, “You still keeping kids in cages?” (Just as Michele stated above...)
said, “I would answer the question, ‘The kids are being house in the same facility built under the Obama administration.’ If you want to call them cages, call them cages. But if the left wants to call them cages and the Democrats want to call them cages then they have to accept the fact that they were built and funded in FY 2015.”
![www.washingtonexaminer.com](https://mediadc.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/6bdf589/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2277x1196+6+24/resize/1200x630!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmediadc-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F07%2Fa4%2Fc5b9f9e24776b09ab0a25d87abd9%2Fap-17339587574514.jpg)
Barack’s ICE chief: Cages were Obama’s idea
Former President Barack Obama’s top immigration chief in charge of removing illegal immigrants said that the “cages” Democrats have accused President Trump of housing children in were the brainchild of the Obama administration.
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Now for another "FACT"... you wrote:" but that it was only in high risk situations and not a general policy as under Trump."
But for Biden to say that Obama’s administration did not put people in cages is inaccurate.
Obama and Biden in 2014 saw an influx of children arriving at the border without a parent or guardian, and reporting from 2014 by the Arizona Republic referred to a chain-link enclosure holding children as "cages."
A former Homeland Security secretary under the Obama administration in interviews has acknowledged that some have described as "cages" the enclosures used during Obama’s tenure.
![www.politifact.com](https://static.politifact.com/CACHE/images/politifact/photos/AP_19256073453598/8e288014f0ef794ba072c9a621ee764e.jpg)
Fact-checking Biden on use of cages for migrants
Joe Biden claimed that a key difference between the administrations of Barack Obama and Donald Trump is that Obama didn’
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See PolitiFact Bias
Finally another FACT:
Back in 2015, during Obama's tenure, a lawsuit filed by the ACLU referred to detention facilities as "hieleras" or "iceboxes," as Salon reported. The lawsuit accused CBP of maintaining "appalling conditions" that left people in "freezing, overcrowded, and filthy cells for extended periods of time, no access to beds, soap, showers, adequate meals and water, medical care, and lawyers in violation of constitutional standards and Border Patrol's own policies."
![www.newsweek.com](https://d.newsweek.com/en/full/1509097/migrant-children-detained.jpg)
Are Migrant Detention Centers Worse Under Trump Than Under Obama?
Back in 2015, during Obama's tenure, a lawsuit filed by the ACLU alleged that detention centers presented "appalling conditions" and did not provide basics such as access to beds, adequate food or medical care.
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FACTS are that Michelle was totally wrong as EVERYONE points out in BLAMING Trump for "cages"!!
So please don't brag about being interested in FACTS...