CLAIM: MSNBC reporter Jacob Soboroff claimed on Monday that former President Barack Obama’s administration “didn’t” separate migrant children from the adults they arrived with at the United States-Mexico border.
VERDICT: False. Former President Donald Trump’s administration was not the only White House to separate migrant children from the adults they arrived with at the southern border — though it was certainly the most publicized.
During an interview with Donald Trump Jr. at the Republican National Convention (RNC), Soboroff asked, “Will we continue to see policies like separating 5,000 children deliberately from their parents?”
In response, Trump Jr. pointed to the Obama administration’s policy that similarly separated migrant children from adults at the border.
