Here is a brief list of things the Obama administration did do:
Arrested tens of thousands of undocumented parents whose kids were US citizens, causing them to lose contact with their children.
“Disappeared” those parents in the immigration enforcement system, where they were nigh-on impossible to track down, before deporting them to countries they hadn’t lived in for as long as decades.
Orphaned thousands of kids who were left without a legal guardian when their parents were shunted to another country.
Sent the parents of those kids to places where there was more than a good chance they’d be kidnapped, tortured, sexually assaulted, killed, or sometimes all of the above.
Traumatized both the kids left behind and the kids whose parents were undocumented but not yet arrested, which saw those kids develop symptoms of PTSD, stress-based health problems, and night terrors.
In other words, Obama may have never specifically called for migrants to have their kids taken away when crossing the border, but wrenching parents away from their kids — in many cases, permanently — was for many years a regular, known outcome of his policies.
https://jacobinmag.com/2018/05/trump...ce-immigration
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