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Media outlets attribute Obama-era child-detention stats to Trump, issue retractions
By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News
Obama tells liberal donors that the 'average American doesn't think that we have to completely tear down the system'; reaction from Fox News contributor Robert Wolf, CEO of 32 Advisors.
Several media organizations were forced to make retractions Tuesday after falsely attributing a staggering Obama-era migrant child-detention statistic to President Trump.
On Monday, Manfred Nowak, an expert from the U.N. Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty, claimed that 100,000 migrant children were detained by the Trump administration and indicated that it was the "world's highest rate" of detained children. The following day, however, he acknowledged that the cited number actually was from 2015 -- under President Obama.
A separate report last week from The Associated Press and the PBS series "Frontline" found 69,550 migrant children have been held in U.S. government custody in the last year.
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