Story on U.N. study on child detentions withdrawn

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-un-rights-child/us-has-worlds-highest-rate-of-children-in-detention-un-study-idUSKBN1XS1PC

 

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(Reuters) - A Nov. 18 story headlined “U.S. has world’s highest rate of children in detention -U.N. study” is withdrawn. The United Nations issued a statement on Nov. 19 saying the number was not current but was for the year 2015. No replacement story will be issued.

 

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I know you can't trust UN reports on about most anything …..so guess this is typical.  And who was President?   Wonder if the report was released back in 2015 when the study was prepared? .  If not, they why not?     

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Posted earlier...

https://nypost.com/2019/11/20/when-the-villain-is-obama-not-trump-news-suddenly-becomes-not-worth-reporting/?fbclid=IwAR2Ogk_PxlIMK85dov5JhYGlpnetSaK6n1NZBFAdYK4YzUMoxSUxYAshoBA

So the United States has “the world’s highest rate of children in detention.” Is this worth reporting? Maybe, maybe not. Nevertheless, Agence France-Presse, or AFP, and Reuters did report it, attributing the information to a “United Nations study” on migrant children detained at the US-Mexico border.

Then the two agencies retracted the story. Deleted, withdrew, demolished. If they could have used one of those Men in Black memory-zappers on us, they would have. Sheepishly, the two news organizations explained that, you see, the UN data was from 2015 — part of a border crackdown that had begun years earlier.

We all know who the president was in 2015. It wasn’t evil, child-caging monster President Trump. It was that nice, compassionate, child-caging monster President Barack Obama.

Zap. The story made Obama look bad. Hence the story was removed. Not updated or corrected, removed.

I know it’s a heavy news environment. Who can keep up? But try to remember this one, because it’s instructive. People think news organizations flat-out fabricate stories. That isn’t often the case. Fake news is a problem that pops up here and there, but the much more systematic and deeply entrenched attack on truth is the casual, everyday bias of reporters.

AFP and Reuters deleted a story that was, in a narrow sense, true — that a UN study claimed the United States had some 100,000 children in migrant-related detention. The United Nations is horribly biased against America and the West. Still, on the level of lazy, news-release-driven journalism, the locked-up-kids story was minimally valid.

At any rate, what the agencies didn’t seem to like was the story’s changed implication: That Obama, rather than Trump, locked up a lot of children. This is what’s important: Not that AFP and Reuters deleted a story, but that the implication of the story meant everything to them.

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So you see. Here is prime undeniable evidence that the Narrative is FAR more important than fact in Journalism. Please examine what happened here. US Media Bae, Obama was rightfully called out for detaining kids which is indeed factual. The pictures that were used initially against DJT, were in fact pictures of the far worse Obama Era Tragedy when unaccompanied children were flooding the border. 60,000 in one year alone.

So what we have here is this. FOREIGN MEDIA WERE MADE TO REMOVE TRUE FACTUAL ARTICLES THAT DIDNT FIT THE US MEDIA'S NARRATIVE. 

Think on that. The US Media's narrative is so important to them that they can and do get factual articles that harm their friends removed ACROSS THE WORLD. Please also note:

THE CARE AND TREATMENT OF THE CHILDREN COULD NOT MATTER LESS TO THESE PEOPLE.
The children are just a bunch of pawns in their elitist political world. 

And let the dullards facepalm away.

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Bush and Obama both separated children from their families under certain conditions, for example if the parents were arrested and imprisoned.  But there is no equivalence between Obama's policy and Trump's "zero tolerance" policy of separating children.

Trump defends conditions for detained migrant kids, blames Obama for family separations; fact checkers call foul

.......But, according to FactCheck.org, "previous administrations did not have a blanket policy to prosecute parents and separate them from their children." It was after the Trump administration announced its "zero-tolerance" immigration policy in April 2018, in which everyone who illegally entered the U.S. was referred for criminal prosecution, that thousands of migrant children were separated from their parents. 

"We don’t want to separate families, but we don’t want families to come to the border illegally and attempt to enter into this country improperly," said then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions when the policy was announced. "The parents are subject to prosecution while children may not be. So, if we do our duty and prosecute those cases, then children inevitably for a period of time might be in different conditions."

In a May 2018 interview, then-White House Chief of Staff John Kelly told NPR a "big name of the game is deterrence" in stopping illegal immigration, and that family separations "would be a tough deterrent." 

Fact check:Did the Obama administration separate families?

 

Migrant apprehensions and deportations during Obama's presidency outpaced those of Trump's first years according to Department of Homeland Security data and a report published Friday by Axios. But PolitiFact found that family separations were rare during the Obama and Bush administrations and became "systematic" under Trump's zero-tolerance policy. 

In 2014, there was a surge in the number of migrant children arriving at the border. The vast majority were unaccompanied, and thousands were detained in makeshift detention centers that included overcrowded chain-link fence cages where they were forced to sleep on the floor with space blankets.