This week’s video from CNN’s Jake Tapper and FactCheck.org explains Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison’s tweet that the Supreme Court “ratified Donald Trump’s ‘total and complete shutdown’ of Muslims entry into the United States.”
Locations: National
Sanders Didn’t Call Christianity Insulting
Trump’s ‘Travel Ban’ Doesn’t Affect All Muslims
Video: Nielsen’s Policy Distortion
Sessions vs. Sessions on Separating Families
More Bogus Border Claims
Conspiracy Theory Follows Call For ‘Space Force’
Did the Obama Administration Separate Families?
In defending its “zero tolerance” border policy that has caused the separation of families, the Trump administration has argued that the Obama and Bush administrations did this too. That’s misleading. Experts say there were some separations under previous administrations, but no blanket policy to prosecute parents and, therefore, separate them from their children.