Donald Trump called out 60 minutes for a misleading child separation story.
.@60Minutes did a phony story about child separation when they know we had the exact same policy as the Obama Administration. In fact a picture of children in jails was used by other Fake Media to show how bad (cruel) we are, but it was in 2014 during O years. Obama separated….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 26, 2018
….children from parents, as did Bush etc., because that is the policy and law. I tried to keep them together but the problem is, when you do that, vast numbers of additional people storm the Border. So with Obama seperation is fine, but with Trump it’s not. Fake 60 Minutes!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 26, 2018
Here is the story Trump is alluding to
Last spring, a Honduran father and his son, Immers, crossed the border illegally. They requested asylum, but Homeland Security issued arrest warrants for both—Immers was 3. https://t.co/LhWn5FyPJE
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) November 26, 2018
Because children can’t be incarcerated, they are sent to child welfare facilities or foster families. Immers was sent to live with a foster family in Michigan. https://t.co/0JyDSaqeRR
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) November 26, 2018
Scott Shuchart worked at Homeland Security HQ at the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Even he was surprised by President Trump’s new policy, saying when his office offered advice, it was ignored. https://t.co/LJpgkVaaEM pic.twitter.com/vJSX6DGofy
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) November 26, 2018
A Homeland Security internal investigation obtained by 60 Minutes found, in part, that one border control station “made to no effort to identify and reunite families prior to (their) removal†from the US. https://t.co/sPsOzvPjpX
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) November 26, 2018
Cecilia Munoz—who handled immigration policy in the Obama administration and has worked in the field for 30 years—says, “We take better care of people’s effects when we send them to jail than we took care of the children who we took from their parents.†https://t.co/SmY94xtSmG pic.twitter.com/W6CWjEbWep
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) November 26, 2018
Immers, the 3-year-old sent to Michigan when his father was incarcerated at the border, was reunited with his mother after 3 months. Immers has been withdrawn and moody, which psychologists say can result from the trauma of separation. (½)
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) November 26, 2018
Dr. Pam McPherson inspects government detention facilities for Homeland Security. She says a child stops looking for comfort from a parent when they’re not there; “once the child detaches, they can have lifelong difficulties forming relationships.†(2/2) https://t.co/MGE9nUKRSB pic.twitter.com/vNr8E4B5BK
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) November 26, 2018
The copy of the Homeland Security order to arrest and detain all adults who crossed the border illegally to seek asylum was censored. What the White House didn’t want the public to see was that child separation began 9 months earlier than initially acknowledged.
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) November 26, 2018
Cecilia Munoz says the Obama administration found that deterrent messages failed to turn back people at the border, even parents with children. “You’re thinking much more about their safety today and tomorrow than…about, “What’s going to happen once we get to our destination?”
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) November 26, 2018
No senior official would speak to 60 Minutes for this story, but the president ended his separation policy after 11 weeks. The White House says more than 2600 children were separated, but reports show that number is closer to 5000. https://t.co/PyiVQbZvfc
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) November 26, 2018
“Are they going to take me away again?” 60 Minutes cameras capture what it’s really like for families who were separated at the border. Reunited after almost four months apart, 7-year-old Litzy is still worried about being taken from her mom. https://t.co/reuweAFva8 pic.twitter.com/yIR65pFjhA
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) November 26, 2018
We have covered this story at length and Trump is exactly right. The policy of border separation has been on the books since Bill Clinton.
Here are a few of our stories(Click links)
FAKE NEWS: Time magazine cover girl wasn’t separated from her mother at border
POLL: U.S Voters blame alien parents not Trump Admin for family separation
Trump Admin alien minor ‘tent cities’ have security, air conditioning, medical workers
Report: Trump to sign executive order ending family separation
The bottom line is that no one should attack the Trump Administration for enforcing existing US law. If Congress doesn’t like it they should change the laws.
