It's a FACT that Obama placed immigrant children with human traffickers. Which, btw, is what is happening again, now that Trump has been forced to "Catch and Release" the illegal alien 'families', which are not families at all.

The Obama administration placed immigrant children with human traffickers.

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CLAIM
The Obama administration placed immigrant children with human traffickers.

RATING
TRUE

ORIGIN
On 17 June 2018, right-wing blogs published a flurry of stories reporting that the administration of former United States President Barack Obama had handed immigrant children over to human traffickers.

The reports were posted in response to the public outcry over a policy enacted by Obama’s successor, Donald Trump, whose administration in April 2018 announced a “zero tolerance” immigration policy. Under this policy, all adults who are caught crossing the southern U.S. border between ports of entry are being charged with federal crimes and then separated from accompanying children.

As the policy went into effect, news reports documenting scenes of distraught, traumatized children being torn from their parents by immigration authorities, and images migrant children being held in cages, created a backlash from both sides of the political spectrum against the Trump administration.

In response to the growing fallout, the president’s supporters wrote up stories criticizing his predecessor based on a 2015 criminal case and 2016 Senate report stemming from a Marion, Ohio human trafficking ring that used migrant children for forced labor on an egg farm. Right-leaning blogs like WesternJournal.com’s Conservative Tribune for example confusingly reported the media was “silent” about the case while aggregating their story from a New York Magazine report:

The left-leaning media stayed strangely silent when the detention of migrant children went on for years before Trump took office… and now it looks like they also kept quiet when Barack Obama’s administration literally placed immigrant children in the hands of human traffickers just a few years ago.

“The United States government placed an unknown number of Central American migrant children into the custody of human traffickers after neglecting to run the most basic checks on these so-called ‘caregivers,’” New York magazine reported in 2016, based on a Senate report.

In July 2015, the U.S. Department of Justice indicted a ring of traffickers led by Aroldo Castillo-Serrano and accused them of smuggling children into the United States. They were also accused of lying to Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) by posing as relatives in order to gain custody of children in its care and use them for forced labor in Marion, a city north of Columbus. The federal indictment, filed in U.S. district court in Ohio accuses Castillo-Serrano and his conspirators of forcing the children to live in squalid trailers and work six or seven 12-hour days a week, using threats and physical violence as coercion.

According to the Justice Department, Castillo-Serrano pleaded guilty in August 2015 to counts related to trafficking. He was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison and ordered to pay restitution to the victims.

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So instead of children being separated from the adults who claim they are the children's parents, but are not (during the Trump reign) - the children are now released into the adults' care - the children are being left in the care of sex traffickers, smugglers, drug cartels, gangs, whoever is claiming to be their parents (with no investigation whatsoever) - as was the policy during Obama's reign.

That's what the Libs have wrought at the border now.

Another example of the hypocrisy of the Liberals - Obama followed the same procedure regarding illegal aliens and illegal alien children in 2014 as Trump had continued, but hypocritically of the Liberals - Obama is blameless and it's all Trump's doing - see this video -

Obama to migrants from Latin America in 2014: "Do not send your children to the borders. If they do make it, they'll get sent back."

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