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Re:Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided ... by datway on Saturday November 07, 2020 @06:01PM (#25020554)
Obama did not separate asylum seeking families as policy. Child migrants who came here alone were processed like other migrants. Separating small children from their families is, in my opinion, a moral abomination. The justification for this policy was to deter migration by punishing them and their children. It's wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_administration_family_se...

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Re:Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided ... by username90 on Saturday November 07, 2020 @06:48PM (#25021055)
> Obama did not separate asylum seeking families as policy. Child migrants who came here alone were processed like other migrants.

No, that isn't how it works. The policy is that children gets torn away from their family if the family gets prosecuted for a crime. That policy existed long before Trump. The only thing that changed under Trump was removal of lenience against parents, meaning parents now got prosecuted at same rate as other border crossers.

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