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Picture Dems Use of Caged Kids to Oppose GOP Happened Under Obama

&NewLine;<p>Democrats are spreading a heart-wrenching picture of kids in cages to oppose the GOP&&num;8217&semi;s border policies&semi; only problem is the picture was taken during the Obama- Biden presidency&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>This happened when Rep&period; Sylvia Garcia&comma; D-Texas&comma; took aim at a Republican-backed immigration measure last week when Title 41 ended&comma; used a photo that was taken during President Biden&&num;8217&semi;s tenure as vice president that showed unaccompanied minors in cages to argue that the bill was &&num;8220&semi;extreme and wrong&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The image — increased in size and placed on a poster alongside Garcia as she spoke from the House floor in opposition to the Secure the Border Act of 2023 — was originally captured as early as 2014&comma; according to an article from&nbsp&semi;The Columbus Dispatch&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The June 2014 article&comma; which was written during former&nbsp&semi;President Barack Obama&&num;8217&semi;s&nbsp&semi;tenure in the White House&comma; used the image showing immigrant children being held in cages with foil blankets in an effort to highlight the &&num;8220&semi;stations&&num;8217&semi; crowded conditions&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Garcia&&num;8217&semi;s poster that featured the image included the statement&colon; &&num;8220&semi;House Republicans&&num;8217&semi; child deportation act is extreme and wrong&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We all expect our government to effectively manage our borders and thoroughly vet those who seek to enter as refugees to join their family already in the country or to work — we all agree on that&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Garcia said&period; &&num;8220&semi;But instead&comma; what we see is children are in danger&comma; families are separated or detained&comma; and people are dying&period; We need reform&comma; and we need it now&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Despite Garcia&&num;8217&semi;s misrepresented comments&comma; the bill would require renewed efforts to build a border wall&comma; more border patrol agents and more financial incentives for them to do their job&comma; an end to catch and release policies&comma; and other initiatives intended to better manage mass migration at the southern border&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In total disregard for their own dismal failures on the immigration issues&comma; Democrats and particularly the Biden White House have tried to blame Republicans for the crisis at the border&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Earlier this month&comma;&nbsp&semi;White House&nbsp&semi;press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre blamed Republicans for the &&num;8220&semi;chaotic&&num;8221&semi; situation at the U&period;S&period;-Mexico border&comma; claiming that GOP lawmakers &&num;8220&semi;literally refuse to act&&num;8221&semi; ahead of the House&&num;8217&semi;s vote on sweeping border security legislation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;The president has been dealing with a system that has been broken for decades&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Jean-Pierre told reporters&period; &&num;8220&semi;Since day one&comma; he put forth a comprehensive immigration plan&comma; and legislation&comma; and he is using the tools that are in front of him to deal with the challenge at the border&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br><br>Editor&&num;8217&semi;s note&colon; This was debunked during the Trump administration&comma; not sure why the same pictures are being rehashed by Biden&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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