How Many Kids Did The Obama Administration Take Away From Their Parents?

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has admitted that 2,342 children were separated from their parents between May 5 and June 9, but it cannot provide statistics on how many children may have been separated. A Facebook post falsely claims that a significantly higher number of children were separated during the Obama administration than under the Biden administration. In 2021, the Biden administration released a tally of at least 3,900 children separated during Trump’s administration. It is unclear exactly how many children were separated during Trump’s administration, which has acknowledged problems in its logistics and has acknowledged problems in its logistics. Immigration advocates and former Obama administration officials argue that the Obama administration detained families together. President Donald Trump falsely claimed that the Obama-Biden administration separated children from their parents at the border. He repeated a false claim to reporters, wrongly blaming the Obama administration for instituting a policy in which children were separated. President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday ending the process of separating children from families after they are detained crossing the US. After criticism of the policy, Trump blamed its introduction on President Obama and the Democrats.