DAVE ROSS

Plenty of media coverage about the border, but what about Obama?

Jun 20, 2018, 6:27 AM | Updated: 8:38 am

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President Barack Obama waves as he speaks during his farewell address at McCormick Place in Chicago, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

If you’ve watched the coverage of recent border crisis, I’m sure you’ve heard complaints like this about the media.

“Where were they just a few years ago when Barack Obama faced a similar surge?”

That was from Conservative commentator Laura Ingraham.

Where were they? Well, they were on the air.

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Here are just a couple news clips from Obama-era media stories about the border issue and children.

“The sudden influx of children has left the government scrambling…”

“The White House calls this an urgent humanitarian situation…”

Then there was the time when President Obama said, “Do not send your children to the border.”

This all happened when there were 57,000 unaccompanied children reported at the US-Mexico border.

Another example — this clip is from the CBS Evening News on July 9, 2014.

“This has become a political mess for President Obama, one that is he trying to resolve by speeding up the deportation of thousands of unaccompanied children.”

The report refers to the same bill that President Donald Trump blames for the current problems at the border.

“It guarantees children outside of Mexico and Canada an immigration hearing. The president now wants to accelerate the process and deport the children.”

And there were immigrant rights groups with some not-so-nice things to say about President Obama at the time.

“They want to quicken the deportation machine,” one protester told CBS. “And I think that is totally wrong, because those kids are victims of violence and poverty.”

And the best part – at the time all that was going on, there was a compromise Senate immigration bill with enough votes to pass the House. President Obama was ready to sign it, but somehow it never even got to the floor. That sounds familiar, too.

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Plenty of media coverage about the border, but what about Obama?