"Immigration “Reform” Won’t Stop Parent-Child Separation"
DATE: "September 24, 2013" - Obama era.
"children all over the United States will live in fear of being separated from their parents."
"Additionally, the bill that recently passed in the Senate doesn’t guarantee a way for undocumented immigrants to bring their family members who have been removed back to the US."
"Although current law does allow some unauthorized immigrants to avoid deportation by showing that a separation would result in “extreme hardship” to their US citizen or legal-resident families, and the Senate bill would allow judges to waive an immigrant’s removal in light of the “hardship,” the granting of such exceptions would be subject to the discretion of the courts."
https://truthout.org/articles/immigration-reform-wont-stop-parent-child-separation/
The law is an OBAMA ERA one.
Surprise!
But what about even earlier? Here's an article from 2010:
"Immigration Enforcement and Family Separation: Unintended Consequences for Children and Families"
DATE: "May 29, 2010" - Obama era.
"The impacts on child well-being and family unity resulting from such enforcement activities are immeasurable. They include separation (sometimes permanent) from one or both parents due to detention and/or deportation, interruptions in schooling, short and long-term emotional trauma, and economic hardship due to the loss of the family breadwinner. "
https://www.momsrising.org/blog/immigration-enforcement-and-family-separation-unintended-consequences-for-children-and-families
"President Obama, Stop Separating and Deporting Our Families"
DATE: "12/02/2013" UPDATED: "Feb 01, 2014"
"I am Ju Hong, the "heckler" that interrupted your speech at the Betty Ong Center in San Francisco last week. I spoke up not out of disrespect, however, either for you or our country. No, I spoke up – and am writing to you now – to ask that you use your executive order to halt deportations for 11.5 million undocumented immigrant families."
"You did not address how you deported 205,000 parents of U.S. citizens in the last two years. You did not address how, because of your administration's record number of deportations–nearly two million immigrants in five years, a record–families are being torn apart"
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/ju-hong/president-obama-stop-sepa_b_4371244.html
Following on from Hu's link:
"Nearly 205K Deportations of Parents of U.S. Citizens in Just Over Two Years"
DATE: "Dec 17, 2012" - Obama era
"Between July 1, 2010, and Sept. 31, 2012, nearly 23 percent of all deportations–or, 204,810 deportations–were issued for parents with citizen children, according to federal data unearthed through a Freedom of Information Act request. "
https://www.colorlines.com/articles/nearly-205k-deportations-parents-us-citizens-just-over-two-years
FOIA link:
http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/12/deportations_of_parents_of_us-born_citizens_122012.html
As the pretentious outlet snopes might say: Parents separated from children a Trump policy? FALSE.