Trump denounces the report "60 minutes" on family separations

President TrumpDonald John Trump, age 95, charged with complicity in 36,000 deaths in Nazi concentration camp Former state secretary Reagan said the United States should use to end to the violence that drives migrants to the United States. On Sunday, CBS's "60 Minutes" newspaper was criticized in an evening over its government's "zero tolerance" policy, which resulted in the separation of thousands of children from their parents on the southern border.

The "60 Minutes" report concluded that the Trump administration had separated migrant children from their parents at the border longer than most people thought, pursuing a "pilot" family separation program in 2017.

".@60 minutes did a fake story about the separation of children when they knew we had exactly the same policy as the Obama administration, "Trump wrote on Twitter.

.@ 60 minutes did a bogus story about the separation of children when they knew we had exactly the same policy as the Obama administration. In fact, another photo of Fake Media used a picture of children imprisoned to show how cruel we are, but it was in 2014 for 0 years. Obama separated ….

– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 25, 2018

"In fact, a picture of children in prison has been used by other fake media to show how cruel we are, but it was in 2014 for 0 years," added the president. , probably referring to a photo taken in 2014 by several media. Outlets and Democrats shared the idea that they had been taken in 2018.

Trump repeatedly asserted, wrongly, that the policy of his administration was the same as that of former President Obama. The Obama administration has certainly separated some children from their parents at the border, but it was not a policy of "zero tolerance" and it did not happen as frequently. than under Trump.

With regard to the photo mentioned by Trump, Cecilia Muñoz, who was director of the White House's Domestic Policy Council, told NPR that she had been taken at a time when there was "a spike" huge … in the number of children crossing alone in the United States ".

"The children ended up piling up in the dungeons of the Border Patrol, which are not places for children," Muñoz said. explained in May.

Trump said that Obama, as well as former President George W. Bush, had separated the children from their parents because "it's politics and law." It was neither a policy nor a law under Trump's predecessors.

"I've tried to keep them together, but the problem is that when you do that, a considerable number of extra people are storming the border," Trump said. "So with Obama separation [sic] that's good, but with Trump, that's not the case. False 60 Minutes! "

…. the children of parents, like Bush, etc., because that is politics and law. I've tried to keep them together, but the problem is that when you do this, a considerable number of additional people are storming the border. So, with Obama, the separation is good, but not with Trump. False 60 Minutes!

– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 25, 2018

The "60 Minutes" report included an interview with Scott Shuchart, a former senior advisor to the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Privacy and Rights Officer. Shuchart told CBS that the policy had been pushed from the top without DHS officials realizing it.

"As a ministry, we were being asked to do something that would violate people's civil rights and freedoms," said Shuchart, who left the agency around the same time. "And my office was frozen from this process, there was no responsible work for me."

The "zero tolerance" policy of the Trump administration led to the separation of more than 2,000 children from their parents 11 weeks earlier this year. Politics sparked a political storm, with activists and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle raging around images of children detained in ugly, dark conditions.

Trump signed a decree ending the policy in May and federal judges ordered the children be returned to their parents.

"60 Minutes" got a full memo stating that the purpose of family separations was to "deter" more immigrants from entering the country. There is no evidence that the policy has discouraged immigration or reduced the number of people seeking entry to the United States.

Trump's tweets were broadcast a few hours after hundreds of Central American migrants sought to cross the border between Tijuana and California. He has been fearing for weeks about the group of migrants, which he calls an "invasion". Reports indicate that it is mainly migrants from Central America who seek asylum to escape poverty and violence in their home country.