President Donald Trump criticized media coverage of his childhood detention facilities for illegal immigrants compared to the little scrutiny the Obama administration faced in 2014 in a Monday tweet.
Such a difference in the media coverage of the same immigration policies between the Obama Administration and ours. Actually, we have done a far better job in that our facilities are cleaner and better run than were the facilities under Obama. Fake News is working overtime!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2018
The Trump administration has come under intense scrutiny for its brief policy of prosecuting all illegal immigrants apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border. Criminal prosecution of all illegals leads to the brief separation of some family units.
The president has expressed previously his frustration with the lack of media coverage of the Obama administration’s own policy of separating families on occasion and detaining thousands of Central American migrant children during a border crisis in 2014.
“In 2014 — in the Obama administration — they have pictures so bad they had a judge that said it was inhumane the way they were treating children. Take a look at some of the court rulings against the Obama administration. They talked about the inhumane treatment,” Trump said at a recent cabinet meeting, adding, “all over the place. Inhumane treatment. They were treating them terribly.”
Photos have once again resurfaced of the Obama administration’s detention facilities at the time showing tens of thousands of children from central America flooded the U.S.-Mexico border and were often kept in fenced off conditions wrapped in foil blankets.