An Immigrant Baby Bus Goes Viral


A photo of a bus jammed with car seats recently blew up on social media. The implication was that the vehicle was necessary because of President Donald Trump's aggressive immigration enforcement orders and willingness to separate kids from their parents at the border. It turns out that this time Trump's not to blame. Snopes reports the bus was purchased by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement contractor while Barack Obama was still president.
This article originally appeared in print under the headline "An Immigrant Baby Bus Goes Viral."
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I'm confused, who cares when the bus was purchased? ...Unless you're saying the child seats came factory installed? ...Doesn't really matter anyway: either it's trump's fault, or it's whataboutism. I'm pretty sure that's how that works...
Nicholas: The point is, the news media and leftist propagandists - but I repeat myself - are pretending that separating families is a new policy for which Trump is solely to blame, rather than an extension of the policies of the Obama and earlier administration. But it was the Obama administration that ordered a bus with all child seats...