Rep. Ilhan Omar admitted that when people point out President Trump is continuing some of the immigration policies that former President Barack Obama had put in place, they are technically correct.
“You know, even now, when we think about policies that are happening at the border, you know, some people will say those were Obama’s polices, and I say, ‘Yes and no,'” Omar told BET’s Black Coffee.
“[Obama] might have thought that there was an easier path to dealing with the crisis by sort of implementing, for a short period of time, policies that he couldn’t have the foresight that the next person who was going to come in was going to take it to a monstrous level,” she said.
Omar said that is the danger of implementing such policies because it opens “the door to darkness” and “a monster will come out.”
Obama’s former secretary of homeland security stated the issue of putting migrants in cages, for example, did not begin when Trump became president.
“Chain link barriers, partitions, fences, cages, whatever you want to call them, were not invented on January 20, 2017, okay?” Jeh Johnson said at the Aspen Ideas Festival.
“And so these facilities were erected … they put those chain link partitions up so you could segregate young women from young men, kids from adults, until they were either released or transferred to HHS,” he explained.
