Clueless Media Blame Trump for Detention Abuses Under Obama
In the wake of an eye-opening report from the Associated Press, which details allegations of abuse at a detention center that has temporarily held illegally trespassing foreign minors since 2007, members of the media are blaming President Trump.
Last month, Trump described members of the notorious MS-13 gang as “animals,” causing Democrats and members of the media to lose their minds and wrongfully assert that the president was de-humanizing immigrants and people of Hispanic descent. Now, members of the media, university professors, and bureaucrats are saying this comment proves Trump is responsible for creating the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center — which has housed foreign minors under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama — where the minors were reportedly mistreated while waiting for their hearing date to determine whether they would be deported or granted asylum.
Yet the Associate Press reporting and underlying lawsuit that forms the basis for these allegations also says the alleged mistreatment of children happened under Barack Obama’s presidency, starting in 2015. . .
Tweet isn't accurate enough and I'm deleting it. Abuses occurred under Obama and Trump. pic.twitter.com/W9QNPU4nYu
— Justin Miller (@justinjm1) June 21, 2018
Hey, thanks for the Baby Abu Graib, Trump.
You've joined the ranks of Dick Cheney et al.
Children beaten while handcuffed, locked up for long periods in solitary confinement, left nude and shivering in concrete cells…#ThursdayThoughts https://t.co/FsZ1cVQToK— Holly Figueroa O'Reilly 🌊 BWCS (@AynRandPaulRyan) June 21, 2018
The AP reports that many of the foreign minors were sent to this facility after federal immigration authorities suspected they were involved in gang activity. The AP says the facility was built “to provide ‘secure placement’ for children who had problems at less-restrictive housing.”
The Shenandoah detention center was built by a coalition of seven nearby towns and counties to lock up local kids charged with serious crimes. Since 2007, about half the 58 beds are occupied by both male and female immigrants between the ages of 12 and 17 facing deportation proceedings or awaiting rulings on asylum claims. Though incarcerated in a facility similar to a prison, the children detained on administrative immigration charges have not yet been convicted of any crime.
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