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After a group of lawyers that visited one of the detention centers housing migrant children called the conditions inhumane, the public called for action from the federal government. Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York joined a congressional delegation and visited the same facility in Clint, Texas to see conditions firsthand.
What they reported back was not good.
At a press gaggle in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump called his detention centers for migrant children a humanitarian crisis. But rather than take responsibility for his Department of Justice zero tolerance policy's creation of the inhumane conditions and overcrowding, Trump told reporters the Democrats were at fault.
Trump also repeated his claim that his administration treated detained children they separated from their family's "better than Obama" and specifically told reporters to remember his claim. Blame President Barack Obama has been a consistent theme in Trump's tenure in office.
A recent announcement from First Lady Melania Trump—part of her Be Best online bullying initiative—drew more outrage and backlash than praise. The official White House website issued a statement for the press and public which Trump shared on Twitter.
In her tweet, Flotus Melania Trump stated:
President Donald Trump's immigration reforms are drawing criticism again after deciding to deport an 11-year-old girl without her family. One of those critics is the Chief of Police in Houston, Texas, Art Acevedo.
Acevedo took to Twitter to express his outrage over the recent family separation directed by the Trump administration.
San Francisco's first black female mayor, London Breed, was sworn in on Wednesday and issued a powerful message to President Donald Trump during her swearing-in speech.
Breed took aim at the Trump administration's policy of detaining the children of immigrants and asylum seekers, saying: "We are going to tell the president that here in San Francisco we don't put children in cages, we put them in the classrooms."
Ever since Oregon Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley tried to visit a children's detention center in Texas, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) remains under heightened scrutiny for enforcing the Justice Department's new policy for dealing with asylum seekers and other migrants with children at the United States southern border. Jeff Sessions, Attorney General and head of the Justice Department, unveiled President Donald Trump's plan back on May 7.
If you take away children and detain them separate from their parents, you can more easily control the parents.
Donald Trump Just Blamed Obama for Doing Nothing for DREAMERs. Do You Want to Tell Him or Should We?
At 5:46am EST, as a comment on a Tweet he made at 5:25am about the Academy Awards, President Donald Trump decided to call out former President Barack Obama and Democrats on DACA.
Ignoring the total non sequitur aspect of his comment to his own Oscars Tweet, the president's message contains a few inaccuracies. But the Twitterverse came through to correct him.