Title: The facts about Trump’s policy of separating families at the border - The Washington Post
Headings: The facts about Trump’s policy of separating families at the border
The facts about Trump’s policy of separating families at the border
The Facts
The Pinocchio Test
Four Pinocchios
What lawmakers and other public figures are saying about the border separations

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“Operationally what that means is we will have to separate your family,” Nielsen told NPR in May. “That’s no different than what we do every day in every part of the United States when an adult of a family commits a crime. If you as a parent break into a house, you will be incarcerated by police and thereby separated from your family. We’re doing the same thing at the border.” Although we’ve fact-checked these family-separation claims twice, we hadn’t had the opportunity to assign a Pinocchio rating yet. We’ll do so now. The Facts
Since 2014, hundreds of thousands of children and families have fled to the United States because of rampant violence and gang activity in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. U.S. laws provide asylum or refugee status to qualified applicants, but the Trump administration says smugglers and bad actors are exploiting these same laws to gain entry. Nielsen says the government has detected hundreds of cases of fraud among migrants traveling with children who are not their own. Trump says he wants to close what he describes as “loopholes” in these humanitarian-relief laws. Advertisement
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The Central American refugee crisis developed during President Barack Obama’s administration and continues under Trump.