DEMS/IMMIGRATION/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [5-29-18] taunted online activists who shared photos of children at immigration detention facilities as a means of criticizing his administration, noting that the photos had been taken during the tenure of his predecessor, Barack Obama…The photograph in question began to circulate online over the weekend, shared by Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau and activists Shaun King and Linda Sarsour, among others. It shows two children lying on green mats on a concrete floor behind a chain-link fence. The photo was taken by The Associated Press and was published by The Arizona Republic in 2014 as part of a photo gallery. Favreau later deleted his tweet. Opponents of Trump have been especially critical in recent weeks of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement policy announced earlier this month that separates parents and children who enter the U.S. illegally. Trump has accused Democrats of installing the policy, but it was, in fact, rolled out by Attorney General Jeff Sessions as a consequence of a broader policy to refer ‘100 percent of illegal southwest border crossings’ to the Justice Department for prosecution.”
-Louis Nelson, “Trump blasts critics over outdated Obama-era photo of detained immigrant kids,” Politico, May 29, 2018 7:09 am