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  • 2018-06-21 (xsd:date)
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  • Were These Children Separated From Their Parents Under Obama? (en)
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  • During ongoing national debate over a novel policy of separating families at the border, a photograph circulated (originally from Joshua Feuerstein, a self-styled American evangelist, Internet and social media personality who last made headlines in 2015 when he manufactured a so-called Christmas cup controversy) that purportedly depicted a room full of immigrant children that former President Barack Obama had supposedly removed from their parents' custody: The attached text read: Some versions were shared with no accompanying text, inviting readers to project their own interpretation onto the image: The meme's text read: The first iteration we could find of that image was alongside a 5 June 2014 post published by Breitbart. Although Breitbart shared the photograph on Facebook on 21 June 2018, the outlet did not include a link to its earlier reporting. In its original article, the children were described as unaccompanied, indicating that they came without their parents, not that they were separated from their families by American authorities: The photograph was subsequently disseminated by numerous web sites and news outlets. National Review's Immigration Bedlam said of the children in the photo: The image and events around it were widely reported for several months, appearing in the Houston Chronicle, Splinter News, the Los Angeles Times, Mashable, and Reuters, among others. Stories during that time specifically reiterated that the photographs showed unaccompanied minor children in the custody of United States Customs and Border Protection and temporarily housed at a Texas Air Force base: Although the photograph is real, it does not show children separated from their parents by the Obama administration. In June 2014, the image was published as part of numerous news stories (and occasionally alongside editorial pieces objecting to the presence of the unaccompanied minor children.) The image did not develop a different backstory until June 2018, during a controversy that specifically involved family separation at the behest of the Trump administration. (en)
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