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| Trump lashes out as Obama-era photos of immigrant children in steel cages linked to current administration | Trump lashes out as Obama-era photos of immigrant children in steel cages linked to current administration |
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| Donald Trump has lashed out after old photos of immigrant children in steel cages which were taken while Barack Obama was in the White House were linked to the current administration. | Donald Trump has lashed out after old photos of immigrant children in steel cages which were taken while Barack Obama was in the White House were linked to the current administration. |
| The US president launched a scathing attack on journalists and Democrat voters who shared the old photos on Twitter in order to highlight the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants. | The US president launched a scathing attack on journalists and Democrat voters who shared the old photos on Twitter in order to highlight the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants. |
| “Democrats mistakenly tweet 2014 pictures from Obama’s term showing children from the Border in steel cages,” Mr Trump tweeted on Tuesday. | “Democrats mistakenly tweet 2014 pictures from Obama’s term showing children from the Border in steel cages,” Mr Trump tweeted on Tuesday. |
| “They thought it was recent pictures in order to make us look bad, but backfires. Dems must agree to Wall and new Border Protection for good of country...Bipartisan Bill!” | “They thought it was recent pictures in order to make us look bad, but backfires. Dems must agree to Wall and new Border Protection for good of country...Bipartisan Bill!” |
| The old images gained increasing traction on Twitter and were shared alongside the caption #wherearethechildren. | The old images gained increasing traction on Twitter and were shared alongside the caption #wherearethechildren. |
| But the images being shared are four years old and were of detainees in a holding cell where hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant children were being processed and held at the US Customs and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center on 18 June 2014 in Nogales in Arizona. | But the images being shared are four years old and were of detainees in a holding cell where hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant children were being processed and held at the US Customs and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center on 18 June 2014 in Nogales in Arizona. |
| Jake Silverstone, Editor in Chief of The New York Times Magazine, apologised for erroneously linking the images to the Trump administration. | |
| "This link, which was flying around earlier today, is from 2014. Still disturbing of course, but only indirectly related to current situation. My bad for RT’ing without closer inspection and implying by timing that it’s current." the journalist tweeted. | |
| Fellow journalist Shaun King and CNN reporter Hadas Gold also tweeted in misplaced disgust about the old Obama era photos. | |
| Jon Favreau, former Director of Speechwriting for President Barack Obama, was similarly disparaging about the images. | |
| "Look at these pictures. This is happening right now, and the only debate that matters i how we force our government to get these kids back to their families as fas as humanly possible," he said in a since deleted tweet. |