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30 September
7:36 pm

Trump used to put kids in cages. He used to separate those children from their parents.

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Xavier Becerra, at California Governor General Election Debate (CNN)

7:36 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific policy claim about Trump-era immigration practices — family separation and detention conditions are documented policy matters but the characterization 'kids in cages' is a contested framing worth verifying against the record.
What we foundThe claim that Trump separated children from their parents and held them in cage-like enclosures is confirmed by multiple independent primary and secondary sources.
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