{"id":118774,"date":"2021-02-05T12:43:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T17:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=118774"},"modified":"2021-02-05T12:57:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T17:57:49","slug":"with-trump-gone-the-media-no-longer-cares-about-kids-in-cages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/with-trump-gone-the-media-no-longer-cares-about-kids-in-cages\/","title":{"rendered":"With Trump Gone, The Media No Longer Cares About \u2018Kids In Cages\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwith-trump-gone-the-media-no-longer-cares-about-kids-in-cages%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=118774&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1155482643.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A new administration and a new party in power has had a significant effect on how the media covers family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border.<\/p>\n<p>Now that President Donald Trump is out of office, the media won\u2019t even use the phrase \u201ckids in cages\u201d as they did during the Trump years, when the topic of migrant children at the border was treated as the greatest human rights issue of a generation (even though China is actually imprisoning people for slave labor).<\/p>\n<p>Children who illegally cross the border with their parents but aren\u2019t given immediate citizenship or a comfy hotel room \u2013 or kept with their parents in prison \u2013 have lost their victimhood status under President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Now, instead of \u201ckids in cages,\u201d the media is referring to them as \u201cmigrant children\u201d or \u201cmigrant families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Free Beacon\u2019s Thaleigha Rampersad put together <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/video-the-kids-in-cages-are-now-migrant-children\/\">a supercut<\/a> of the difference, showing the media\u2019s repeated use of the phrase \u201ckids in cages\u201d when Trump was president versus the new, softer phrases, \u201cmigrant children\u201d or \u201cmigrant families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-administration-will-use-semi-permanent-soft-sided-structures-to-house-migrant-children-trump-was-blasted-for-tent-cities\">reported<\/a> earlier this week, the Biden administration is using euphemisms to distance itself from everything the media claimed to hate about the Trump administration and its treatment of illegal immigrants. For example, \u201ccages\u201d are now called \u201chard-sided structures.\u201d Trump was also relentlessly attacked for his \u201ctent cities.\u201d Biden is reopening one of these facilities to hide the children of illegal immigrants, and it may require tents, but don\u2019t worry, they\u2019re not really \u201ctents,\u201d they\u2019re now \u201csemi-permanent (soft-sided)\u201d structures.<\/p>\n<p>Those euphemisms were in an official statement from the Department of Health and Human Services announcing it would reopen a \u201ctemporary Influx Care Facility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The issue on the border has been around for decades. It was the Obama administration that built the \u201ccages\u201d used by the media as a cudgel against Trump. It wasn\u2019t until Trump was in office when people began sharing a 2014 article and photo (when Obama was still in office) to start talking about \u201ckids in cages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s deterrent policy of arresting those who illegally crossed the border exacerbated the issue at the border. The administration wasn\u2019t going to put kids in prison with their families (just as we wouldn\u2019t put a kid in jail if their parent committed a crime here in the U.S.), but that resulted in family separations. Facilities to house illegal immigrants were already crowded under Obama, and the situations became worse under Trump. The media uncritically latched on to the result of Trump\u2019s deterrent policy without asking numerous questions about the border, like getting Democrats to admit they just want an open border.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats didn\u2019t want the families separated, but they didn\u2019t want the kids in jail with their parents, either. They didn\u2019t want illegal immigrants arrested, period. But they refused to admit they wanted illegal immigrants to just walk into the country without issue. Their disapproval of everything Trump did suggested they wanted instant citizenship granted to anyone who crosses the U.S. border and to let them loose into our society, no questions asked.<\/p>\n<p>How do we know this? Because they didn\u2019t want the housing facilities for the illegal immigrants but didn\u2019t suggest alternatives. They wanted families kept together but not in those facilities for which they offered no alternatives. Everything outside of a parade welcoming illegal border crossing without the slightest checks to ensure we knew who was entering the country was deemed racist.<\/p>\n<p>But now that Biden is president, none of this is racist. Under Obama, families were separated \u201cfor their protection,\u201d according to former Obama administration official-turned CNN analyst Sam Vinograd, even though no evidence exists to suggest this was the case.<\/p>\n<p>In fact,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsgac.senate.gov\/download\/majority-and-minority-staff-report_-protecting-unaccompanied-alien-children-from-trafficking-and-other-abuses-the-role-of-the-office-of-refugee-resettlement\">a Senate report<\/a>&nbsp;from January 2016, while Obama was still president, found that the Department of Health and Human Services had actually&nbsp;<em>given<\/em>&nbsp;more than a dozen immigrant children to human traffickers because it failed to adequately conduct background checks.<\/p>\n<p>Now under Biden, we\u2019re back to everything being rosy and \u201cfor their protection,\u201d via executive orders that won\u2019t do anything to resolve the underlying issue of whether we even want to have borders anymore or not.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new administration and a new party in power has had a significant effect on how the media covers family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border. 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