Though former first lady Michelle Obama asserted Monday night that the Trump Administration was responsible for tearing families apart by throwing children in cages, she failed to add that it was her husband, former President Barack Obama, who built those cages in the first place, the Daily Wire reported.
She stated that “right now, kids in this country are” watching “in horror as children are torn from their families and thrown in cages.” The Daily Wire reported that this inflammatory statement was just one of the many misleading statements she made during the Democratic National Convention.
The Associated Press even said that Michelle Obama’s remarks were “a frequent and distorted point made widely by Democrats.”
“But what she did not say is that the very same ‘cages’ were built and used in her husband’s administration, for the same purpose of holding migrant kids temporarily,” the AP reported.
“Trump used facilities that were built during the Obama-Biden administration to house children at the border. They are chain-link enclosures inside border facilities where migrants were temporarily housed, separated by sex and age.”
Nobody tell @MichelleObama who built those cages pic.twitter.com/IepTNsApUB
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) August 18, 2020
“When that fact came to light, some Democrats and activists who had tweeted the photos deleted their tweets. But prominent Democrats have continued to cite cages for children as a distinctive cruelty of Trump.”
The Daily Wire noted that the Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden had lied in suggesting that Obama “didn’t lock people up in cages.”
Even the AP ‘Fact Checkers’ couldn’t let this whopper slide. https://t.co/T9LeRvYopl
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) August 18, 2020
“We didn’t lock people up in cages. We didn’t separate families. We didn’t do all of those things, number one.”
Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, who served during the Obama Administration, addressed a photo that depicted him allegedly “walking past what appears to be children in cages.”
Johnson cleared up confusion by admitting that the photo was taken at the Southern border where a large number of illegal aliens were located, adding that children had to be sent to Health and Human Services within three days.
“You can’t just dump 7-year-old kids on the streets of McAllen or El Paso. And so these facilities were erected, that one I think was a large warehouse, and they put those chain-link partitions up so you could segregate young women from young men from, you know, kids from adults, until they are either released or transferred to HHS. Is it ideal? Of course not.”
Johnson continued with his justification of the cages during a CBS News interview, saying that “the partitions you see, some call them cages, are meant to separate the women from the men, the girls from the boys. But these were temporary.”
Thomas Homan, Obama’s executive associate director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, stated during an interview that the “chain link dividers that keeps children separate from unrelated adults” was about “protecting children.”