As part of our Media Manipulation series we examine the “separating families at the boarder” meme that has been so prevalent in the mainstream media, on social media and with celebrities in recent weeks. We take a look back at similar headlines and seemingly unnoticed, forgotten or ignored stories from mainstream media outlets from 2014 and 2015 and wonder sarcastically why does everyone care so much about this now? From holding minor foreign nationals for months without charges, to giving Mexican kids away to slavers the past administration seems to have gotten this as wrong or even more wrong. But the outrage was not manufactured until a few weeks ago.
Featured Articles:
Obama ‘Tearing Family’s Apart’ Immigration Activists Decry – The Hill 2014
Deportation Separated Thousands of US Born Children From Parents in 2013 – Huffington Post 2014
Mexican Kids Held For Months as Punishment For Boarder-Crossing – The Washington Post 2015
Obama Administration Placed Children with Human Traffickers, Report Says – Washington Post 2015
How Liberals Got Lost on the Story of Missing Children at the Boarder – The New York Times 2018
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