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Obama Lashes Out At ‘Compassionate Conservatives’ Over Immigration Policy That Left Kids In ‘Pens.’ There’s Just One Problem.

Emily Zanotti

Over the weekend, former President Barack Obama appeared at a campaign rally in support of Michigan Democrats, but spent most of the time lashing out at Republicans and “compassionate conservatives” he claims failed to criticize the president for an anti-immigration policy that he says put children “in pens.”

“I’d like to think there are compassionate conservatives out there who think there’s nothing compassionate about ripping immigrant children from the arms of their mothers at the border and putting them in pens,” he told the audience in Detroit.

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