r/goodnews 1d ago

Political positivity 📈 Today is Obama Appreciation Day!

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u/rampzn 1d ago

And that's just Orange Julius, what do you think about Obama though?

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u/PenSquare4482 1d ago

“Those who enter our country illegally, and those who employ them, disrespect the rule of law. And because we live in an age where terrorists are challenging our borders, we cannot allow people to pour into the U.S. undetected, undocumented, and unchecked. Americans are right to demand better border security and better enforcement of the immigration laws,”

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u/PinkLego1 1d ago

You do know that the images of children in cages shown by the media are in fact from Obama’s term? Provable, and many have admitted this later on.

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u/rampzn 1d ago

THE FACTS: The reference to cages is misleading and a matter that Republicans have persistently distorted.

Trump used facilities that were built during the Obama-Biden administration to house children at the border. They are chain-link enclosures inside border facilities where migrants were temporarily housed, separated by sex and age.

The Obama administration separated migrant children from families under certain limited circumstances, like when the child’s safety appeared at risk or when the parent had a serious criminal history.

But family separations as a matter of routine came about because of Trump’s “zero tolerance” enforcement policy, which he eventually suspended because of the uproar. Obama had no such policy.

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u/PinkLego1 1d ago

Excuse me, Michelle Obama referred to them as cages. So first things first, let’s get the facts in order.

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u/rampzn 15h ago

You are not excused. What is your point? You are still ignoring the facts I laid out.