mhaze- Credit for sticking to the point. Kudos.

The Trump administration has received a slap in the face over its separation of children policy. US District Court Judge Dana Sabraw has ordered federal officials to stop detaining parents apart from their minor children, absent a determination the parent is unfit or the parent declines reunification; reunify all parents with their minor children who are under the age of 5 within 14 days and reunify all parents with their minor children age 5 and older within 30 days.
The order also mandates that officials provide parents contact with their children by phone within 10 days, if the parent is not already in contact with his or her child.

Seventeen states have now filed a complaint against the Federal Government challenging the family separation practice.

Dear mhaze,

You really are a dreadful little malcontent playing as loose with the truth as you think you might get away with.

Not on this occasion my friend.

The quote you so triumphantly produced for us came from this article;

http://www.texastribune.org/2018/06/27/port-isabel-detention-center-long-history-problems-immigrants-reunification/

The hunger strike you related was indeed in Obama's first year of office but the problem had been created under Bush.

“George H.W. Bush had decided to make some changes to Ronald Reagan’s immigration policies — particularly for people fleeing civil wars in El Salvador and Guatemala.
Under the new rules, implemented by late 1988, asylum applicants from those countries could no longer get work permits or travel in the United States, as the Reagan administration had briefly allowed them to do. They would have to stay in the district where they sought asylum and if their claim was denied, they’d be locked up.
The facility at Port Isabel — which soon came to be known as “El Corralón,” or “the big corral” — was the natural choice for a detention center, and the government quickly made plans to expand its capacity from 425 to several thousand.”

Obama did not have a policy of separating families. Rather he had been faced with the issue of thousands of unaccompanied minors. Trump decided as a punitive action to separate complete families as a default process leading to the protests and him ultimately having to back down.

I hold foxy's research skill far above yours and without the perchance of deliberately slanting what those sources are revealing.

Bloody terrible.

Perchance?

Sorry.

Predilection.

Dear AJ, Rache, SteeleRedux, and Paul1405,

Kudos to all of you for bringing out the facts
of this issue.

Well done.

Canem Malum,

You can miss a lot by sticking to the point.
Especially if your point is wrong.
No kudos.

I know there's this belief among many here that Obama was a saint in regards to the illegals (well more of a hope than a belief since its isn't based on the actual facts). But trying to exonerate the Obamessiah while condemning Trump is is loosing cause, since it is demonstrably true that most of Trump's policies are unchanged from those of his predecessor.

Unlikely the Foxys and SRs of this world, whose policy is to find some hack who'll tell them what they want to hear, I'll give a hint as to how to real research is done using original sources...

For example:

* "Senator Dianne Feinstein [she's a Democrat] claimed that she "didn't really know enough" about the "mistreatment" of illegal immigrants to pay attention to it during the eight years that Barack Obama was in office".

* "Honduran woman and her child sue Obama administration over 'inhumane' detention"....
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/08/26/honduran-woman-and-her-child-sue-obama-administration-over-inhumane-detention.html
"a border agent denied Rodriguez food and told her that it was futile of her to have entered the United States, suggesting that she would face worse persecution than she had in Honduras. Additionally, the suit claims that officials withheld asthma medication for Angelo".
This all happened in 2015 but I'm sure SR will tell us its all Bush's fault or something.

Many of you will have to not read this report on conditions in 2016 because you don't want it to be true....
* http://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/sites/default/files/litigation_documents/doe_v_johnson_former_detainees_describe_horrific_conditions_in_cbp_detention.pdf and

http://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/litigation/challenging-unconstitutional-conditions-cbp-detention-facilities

* "A DHS official told NBC News that the practice of dividing parents and kids predates the Trump presidency. “DHS has continued a long-standing policy by the previous administration,” said the official, listing risk to the child and criminal prosecution of the parent as among the reasons for separation."

repeat..."predates the Trump presidency". But that can't be true because ....STFU.

/cont