PolitiFact: JD Vance's faulty comparison of Trump, Harris on child separation at border
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-50% Medium Liberal
- Reliability
70% ReliableGood
- Policy Leaning
6% Center
- Politician Portrayal
-44% Negative
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
45% : The inspector general found that ICE transferred more than 448,000 unaccompanied children to Health and Human Services' custody from fiscal years 2019 to 2023 (which includes about two years of Trump's administration).36% : The inspector general report said ICE reported there were more than 32,000 unaccompanied minors who did not appear for their immigration court hearings during this period and that children "who do not appear for court are considered at higher risk for trafficking, exploitation, or forced labor."But immigration experts told us that the Trump-Vance campaign is conflating unaccompanied minors with children separated at the border.
35% : The report led Republican lawmakers and conservative news outlets to say that Immigration and Customs Enforcement "lost" the children or that they are "missing.
29% : Amid growing criticism of family separations in public opinion surveys and by some Republicans, Trump issued a June 2018 executive order to detain families together when they arrived at the border if the parents faced prosecution.
15% : NBC's "Meet the Press" host Kristen Welker asked Vance whether families would be separated under a mass deportation program if Trump were reelected.
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