Yesterday the AFP news agency broke what it felt was a huge story, claiming that Trump was holding 100,000 migrant children in detention:
#BREAKING More than 100,000 children in migration-related US detention: UN pic.twitter.com/67PEWc4KFi
— AFP news agency (@AFP) November 18, 2019
But it turns out they were completely wrong, that these numbers didn’t belong to Trump at all. Rather, they belonged to the Obama administration:
Not only is no replacement story coming forth, but they are going to delete it all together:
AFP is withdrawing this story.
The author of the report has clarified that his figures do not represent the number of children currently in migration-related US detention, but the total number of children in migration-related US detention in 2015.
We will delete the story. https://t.co/p30UjEWl7u
— AFP news agency (@AFP) November 19, 2019
Here’s a few responses from Twitter:
How many times now has it happened that people – with great preening & indignation – posted something online about the moral evils of Trump's immigration detention centers, only to slink away when it turned out it was from Obama years? My favorite example: https://t.co/Az40DSXS58 https://t.co/e73InJPI9J
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 19, 2019
Holy shit this is a huge error https://t.co/JHahZo9Da7
— Amber Athey (@amber_athey) November 19, 2019
Who was president in 2015? https://t.co/jHI5Uod8Tz
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) November 19, 2019
I’ve lost count of how many “outrageous Trump-era immigration stories” have actually turned out to be from the Obama era. And every single time, the media/left just shrug and say “oh, well, that was different.” https://t.co/nCrrxZZ2kr
— James Hasson (@JamesHasson20) November 19, 2019
"Children in cages" was totally fine when Obama was President https://t.co/gr18nSLttB
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) November 19, 2019