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On 13 June 2018, the Facebook page The Other 98% shared the following meme: The Twitter handle @krassenstein appeared at the lower left corner of the meme, and Twitter user Brian Krassenstein shared the text as a tweet a day earlier. Neither The Other 98% (whose caption simply stated Unbelievable) nor Krassenstein provided a citation for the meme's text, which read: Both the tweet and meme appeared to reference a 12 June 2018 article from McClatchy entitled, Trump looking to erect tent cities to house unaccompanied children. That piece quoted an unnamed source from the Department of Health and Human Services as saying officials were considering building a tent city on military land: At the time of publication, the HHS official said the agency had yet to determine whether any of the three sites assessed are suitable. The Texas Observer reported that notions of locking up families in penal-like facilities, or even 'tent cities' for immigrants, including kids is both new and not new, resulting from the enforcement of far harsher detention policies: On 14 June 2018, The New York Times profiled a shelter for immigrant children in Brownsville, Texas. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) visited that center on 3 June 2018, putting up a video that later went viral on social media. That article reported that HHS had announced that temporary tent cities would be constructed near Tornillo, Texas: NBC reiterated that the policy was not new: Multiple news organizations obtained HHS confirmation that tent cities were being constructed to accommodate a massive influx of child detainees, largely due to changes made to border policy in May and June 2018. Many noted that the primary difference in circumstance was that a change in how families were processed in detention led to an abrupt need for increased shelter capacity.
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