Republicans on social media are using a photo of kids in cages from the Obama Admin and lying
about the back story. I have already seen it come up twice and here is the full story behind the photo. Have this story ready to knock it down:
Obama officials rushed to explain photos from 2014 that went viral showing locked-up immigrant children and Trump's facilities look the same
Snip:
"In 2014, we saw an enormous spike compared to what usually happens every year, in the number of kids crossing alone into the United States," she said. "And we didn't have enough shelter facilities, because we had a huge increase, so kids ended up piling up in Border Patrol lock-ups, which are no places for children."
She continued:
"What the Obama administration did, which is what the law requires, is to find shelter facilities for those kids, which were put together by the Department of Health and Human Services. So the goal was to get kids out of the Border Patrol, into proper care by HHS, and then HHS is supposed to release them to the least restrictive setting, and in more than 80% of the cases, that was their parents who were already in the United States."
http://www.businessinsider.com/migrant-children-in-cages-2014-photos-explained-2018-5