Sick of the media’s hypocrisy when it comes to President Trump’s new “zero tolerance” immigration policy?
We know the Obama Administration treated illegal immigrants far less humanely than the Trump Administration. We know that under Obama, minors caught crossing the border were stuffed into the equivalent of dog kennels. (RELATED: MSNBC Accidentally Reports Truth About ‘Caged’ Immigrants).
The media hardly made a peep about the Obama Administration’s immigration practices. In fact, California Senator Diane Feinstein admitted to ignoring the issue under the last administration:
Now we just got a lot more proof of the brazen hypocrisy of the media in acknowledging the previous administration’s border enforcement tactics. Take a look at this incredible Twitter thread from Brandon Darby of Breitbart News:
Re: “Cages” —- The chainlink partitions in the holding facilities at border are the exact same ones we showed you during the Obama Admin. Why didn’t you care then? Cc @joelpollak
— Brandon Darby (@brandondarby) June 18, 2018
Image #1 we showed you in 2014 pic.twitter.com/GHYfs4a7sO
— Brandon Darby (@brandondarby) June 18, 2018
Image #2 we showed you in 2014 pic.twitter.com/5s31QgL9sH
— Brandon Darby (@brandondarby) June 18, 2018
Image #3 we showed you in 2014 pic.twitter.com/m2Pjy59FR4
— Brandon Darby (@brandondarby) June 18, 2018
Image #4 we showed you in 2014 pic.twitter.com/NHoQiRL4fP
— Brandon Darby (@brandondarby) June 18, 2018
Image #5 we showed you in 2014 pic.twitter.com/dakVvUY31E
— Brandon Darby (@brandondarby) June 18, 2018
Image #6 we showed you in 2014 pic.twitter.com/NcCklvdcbq
— Brandon Darby (@brandondarby) June 18, 2018
The image thread goes on, but here are some more highlights:
Image #15 we showed you in 2014 pic.twitter.com/8Te1RcNq60
— Brandon Darby (@brandondarby) June 18, 2018
Image #20 we showed you in 2014 pic.twitter.com/1YsbbcsxyK
— Brandon Darby (@brandondarby) June 18, 2018
Image #24 we showed you in 2014 pic.twitter.com/TqHZekXXSm
— Brandon Darby (@brandondarby) June 18, 2018
A former Washington Post report tried to point out that the Obama Administration’s practices weren’t nearly the same as the current policy enacted by the Trump Administration. Darby wasn’t having it:
The new images show children in cages who, in some cases, were forcibly taken from their parents. Under Obama, they were unaccompanied minors who crossed the border alone. Both sets of pictures are hard to look at, but they’re not the same.
— Kevin Sieff (@ksieff) June 18, 2018
Actually, the facilities are the exact same facilities. Also, Obama didn’t stop separating families until November 20, 2014 with the Jeh Johnson memo
— Brandon Darby (@brandondarby) June 18, 2018
My point isn’t about the facilities, it’s about the children inside of them. How many children did the Obama Administration forcibly separate from parents? There’s a reason the government is now opening a bunch of child detention centers along the border. It’s a new policy.
— Kevin Sieff (@ksieff) June 18, 2018
Noooo. Not a new policy. This Admin is going back to what Obama Admin did prior to November 20, 2014, albeit with more gusto. In the US, minors don’t get incarcerated with adults. They can’t. Trump is choosing to enforce laws. That’s not a “new policy.”
— Brandon Darby (@brandondarby) June 18, 2018
Not true. Under Obama, families who crossed the border were mostly released with a court date. Others were held in family detention centers. Lots of problems with those approaches, but it’s dishonest to say both admins had the same policy.
— Kevin Sieff (@ksieff) June 18, 2018
I didn’t say that. Both Admins operated under same laws, one Admin, in middle of presidency, chose to no longer enforce those laws. Both separated minors from parents when they enforced the same laws. Trump is enforcing the same laws without giving exceptions
— Brandon Darby (@brandondarby) June 18, 2018
There you have it. President Trump is enforcing the law while advocating for it to change. The Democrats just willfully ignored it. (RELATED: Melania Trump Speaks Out About Immigration Enforcement Policies).
Next time someone attempts to criticize Trump for his immigration policy of “zero tolerance,” be sure to remind him or her where he got the idea.
