ALERT: Minor children who are U.S. citizens separated from asylum seeker and placed with relatives who abused them. Guess who was president when this happened...

Greg P. | 9:48 AM on June 20, 2018

You’ve probably seen the AP report on toddlers being detained under the new zero-tolerance border policy…

Toddlers are being detained. Toddlers.

This is why we filed a class action. This is why we won’t stop fighting until families are reunited.#FamiliesBelongTogether https://t.co/hHTpmBB7jB

— ACLU (@ACLU) June 20, 2018

…But get this. The organization quoted in the article is Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, which put out a report in 2017 highly critical of the Obama administration for some of the very same things they’re not critical of Trump over:

This AP story quotes the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service. That organization published "Betraying Family Values: How Immigration Policy at the United States Border is Separating Families" in January 2017 about policy during the *Obama* years. https://t.co/vv02FsCSsJ

— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) June 20, 2018

The Weekly Standard’s Jeryl Bier tweeted out a bunch of excerpts from that report back at the end of May.

Some examples…

Meet Lucia, who sought asylum with her husband and their two U.S. citizen children during the Obama administration. She and her husband were separated from the children, who were then placed with family members in San Diego where they were abused. The kids were moved to a second family member who then decided that caring for the kids was too much work. Eventually Lucia, with the help of an attorney, was granted parole to care for her kids:

And here’s an excerpt from the report above on how during the Obama years, “Family unity has also been negatively impacted by the implementation of laws that focus on enforcement… charges are often brought against asylum seekers even if they request asylum at the border.” Where have we heard that before:

From a January 2017 report (pre-Trump): "Family unity has also been negatively impacted by the implementation of laws that focus on enforcement… charges
are often brought against asylum seekers even if they request asylum at the border."https://t.co/aFcT8pUv9d pic.twitter.com/WtgAOj2vBT

— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) May 29, 2018

It’s almost as if the media is purposely ignoring everything that happened under the previous administration for a reason that we can’t figure out. Must be a simple oversight.

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Steve Schmidt leaves the GOP over zero tolerance policy endorsed by John McCain in 2015 https://t.co/GiUkddMsFW

— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 20, 2018

Flashback 2014: Senators McCain and Flake criticize AG Eric Holder for ending prosecution of 1st-time border crossers https://t.co/FzeAkAXHZQ

— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 20, 2018