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<blockquote data-quote="Old Man Jingles" data-source="post: 3567552" data-attributes="member: 18222">Under Obama, the law was rarely enacted but now Trump and the Keebler Elf decided to enforce the law as written.Note: The law is still applied to American citizens for something as trivial as possession of a couple of joints.<a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/may/29/donald-trump/trump-blames-democrat-own-policy-separating-family/" target="_blank">Donald Trump blames Democrats for </a><a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/may/29/donald-trump/trump-blames-democrat-own-policy-separating-family/" target="_blank">immigration policy separating families</a>Whenever parents are charged with a federal misdemeanor (entry without inspection in this case), or awaiting trial, they are placed in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service. Children cannot go to jail, so they are transferred to the custody of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement. They are then placed with relatives, juvenile detention centers or foster care. That’s a longstanding Homeland Security policy, DHS told us.Before the Trump administration, immigrants entering illegally as families were rarely prosecuted, said Sarah Pierce, an associate policy analyst of the U.S. Immigration Program at the Migration Policy Institute. Instead, immigrants were held in family detention centers until they were sent to appear before an immigration court or deported.Politifact rates Trump&#039;s statement FALSE because they can&#039;t find a law that specifically states children must be separated from parents[ATTACH=full]197867[/ATTACH] </blockquote>

[QUOTE="Old Man Jingles, post: 3567552, member: 18222"] Under Obama, the law was rarely enacted but now Trump and the Keebler Elf decided to enforce the law as written. Note: The law is still applied to American citizens for something as trivial as possession of a couple of joints. [SIZE=6][B][URL='http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/may/29/donald-trump/trump-blames-democrat-own-policy-separating-family/']Donald Trump blames Democrats for immigration policy separating families[/URL][/B][/SIZE] [I]Whenever parents are charged with a federal misdemeanor (entry without inspection in this case), or awaiting trial, they are placed in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service. Children cannot go to jail, so they are transferred to the custody of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement. They are then placed with relatives, juvenile detention centers or foster care. That’s a longstanding Homeland Security policy, DHS told us. Before the Trump administration, immigrants entering illegally as families were rarely prosecuted, said Sarah Pierce, an associate policy analyst of the U.S. Immigration Program at the Migration Policy Institute. Instead, immigrants were held in family detention centers until they were sent to appear before an immigration court or deported.[/I] [B]Politifact rates Trump's statement FALSE because they can't find a law that specifically states children must be separated from parents [ATTACH=full]197867[/ATTACH] [/B] [/QUOTE]

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