In his CNN town hall, former Vice President Mike Pence said the Trump administration inherited a family separation policy from the Obama administration. That’s False.
e addressed a controversial immigration policy: the separation of families arriving at the southwest border., moderator Dana Bash raised the issue when she asked Pence what he thought of something former President Donald Trump said a few weeks earlier. Trump, participating in another CNN town hall, said that even though he had ended the family separation policy while he was president, he would consider bringing it back if reelected in 2024, because it deterred illegal immigration.
"Would you bring it back?" Bash asked Pence, who is facing off against Trump in the 2024 GOP presidential primaries. Pence said"no," adding,"Look, the family separation policy actually began under the Obama administration. And then we continued it until President Trump rightly reversed course."
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