President Donald Trump is bearing the brunt of the blame for recent reports on how illegal immigrants and their children are treated, courtesy of the national media, but the conditions being exposed frequently occurred under the Obama administration.
NEW: 2015 photos reveal migrant children held in Obama-era detention cells filled with trash, sleeping under toilets, eating food off floor.
Eyewitnesses say the migrant children were starved, freezing cold & crying.
The Obama admin is being sued for thishttps://t.co/Tp7FAy99h4 pic.twitter.com/af9QGycsq4— Benny (@bennyjohnson) June 21, 2018
Under former President Barack Obama, detention centers were used to house those who illegally entered the U.S., with adults and children held in fenced in enclosures that are being compared to cages, and, yes, families were separated.
Housing conditions at a Tucson, Arizona facility were detailed in a 2015 class-action lawsuit filed by the American Immigration Council and the American Civil Liberties Union, The Daily Caller reported.
The “filthy” conditions were not reserved for adults only, according to the lawsuit:
“The complaint alleges that Tucson Sector Border Patrol holds men, women, and children in freezing, overcrowded, and filthy cells for days at a time in violation of the U.S. Constitution and CBP’s own policies. Detained individuals are stripped of outer layers of clothing and forced to suffer in brutally cold temperatures; deprived of beds, bedding, and sleep; denied adequate food, water, medicine and medical care, and basic sanitation and hygiene items such as soap, sufficient toilet paper, sanitary napkins, diapers, and showers; and held virtually incommunicado in these conditions for days.”
Photos of these housing conditions, occurring during the Obama administration, were published by the American Immigration Council.
Illegal immigrants are seen sleeping on the floor in packed areas, using foil blankets to stay warm. Trash can be seen scattered on the floor and in one photo, a mother is seen changing a baby’s diaper amid the rubbish.
An immigration attorney, R. Andrew Free, documented online in a series of tweets a damning exchange he had at the time with President Obama on the conditions:
Thread: How did we get here?
In 2015, I shook President Obama’s hand, thanked him for DACA, and asked him to reverse course & close the for-profit baby jails (also known as “family detention centers”) he opened in Dilley & Karnes City, Texas. What he said shook me to my core 1/ pic.twitter.com/K5vi6S2RPj— #DetentionKills (@ImmCivilRights) June 19, 2018
3/ Just days before, President Obama’s senior immigration policy advisor @cecmunoz had received a chilly welcome during her keynote address to the @AILANational annual conference attendees in National Harbor. She was greeted with silent protest & signs saying #EndFamilyDetention
— R. Andrew Free (@ImmCivilRights) June 19, 2018
5/ So the President’s immediate association of “End Family Detention” with immigration lawyers wasn’t random. He’d been told and believed we were basically the only ones who’d care, and even then, it would be a minority of us that wouldn’t extract from him a political cost.
— R. Andrew Free (@ImmCivilRights) June 19, 2018
7/ And he walked on down the rope line. Not, “I know. I’m working on it.” not, “Thanks for your support”. Just, “Yes. This is the right move given what I perceive the facts to be.” I was dumbfounded. Let’s unpack the logic of what he said because it’s that logic which led us here
— R. Andrew Free (@ImmCivilRights) June 19, 2018
Yet, no outcry from liberal activists disguised as journalists. At least, not until Donald Trump was elected president.
Here are other photos of the Tucson facility released by the American Immigration Council:
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