Separating Families: Fact vs. Fiction

MRC Latino | March 14, 2017
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JOSE FUENTES, ADVISOR TO PRESIDENT TRUMP: The Obama administration, what happened, was that they brought them (the unauthorized immigrants and their children) in. They arrested them. They let the entire family go with a summons that they had to appear at a court hearing on a certain date. The people did not appear in court. They disappeared inside the country. And no one would find them again.

JORGE RAMOS, HOST, AL PUNTO [interrupting]: But they didn’t separate mothers from children.

JOSE FUENTES, ADVISOR TO PRESIDENT TRUMP: And that’s how the number of undocumented people kept growing. We are. No, no, no. Mr. Trump, President Trump ran on a platform that said they were going to enforce the immigration laws, and that is what he is doing. And if you enforce the immigration laws, you cannot keep those children with those families. So that is what is going to happen. It’s not that we are in favor or against. What is cruel and inhumane is that they force those kids to try to cross a desert to enter this country. 

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