In January 2019 President Trump made a nationally televised address from the Oval Office to request funding from the Democratically controlled House for the growing humanitarian crisis on the Southern border.<ref>https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/president-trump/trump-makes-humanitarian-case-for-wall-calling-border-situation-%E2%80%98a-crisis-of-the-soul%E2%80%99/ar-BBRZJlh</ref> Democrats and the [[mainstream media]] called it a "manufactured crisis,"<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K8dwSt1hog&feature=youtu.be</ref> denying such a crisis existed.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/03/x-times-the-media-said-there-was-no-crisis-at-the-southern-border/</ref> After a photo of the bodies of a father and his 23 month old daughter who drowned in the [[Rio Grande]] river trying to enter the United States illegally was widely published,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PxNj4_mEVg</ref> some Democrats, most notably [[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]], falsely charged the U.S. with maintaining "[[concentration camp]]s" on the Southern border since the Obama era,<ref>https://www.ushmm.org/information/press/press-releases/statement-regarding-the-museums-position-on-holocaust-analogies</ref><ref>Walter Shaub was the Obama era director of the United States Office of Government Ethics, now Senior Director of the election law organization Campaign Legal Center. https://archive.fo/tMEu5</ref> forcing migrants to drink toilet water,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q48Ch_6kU5A</ref><ref>https://www.businessinsider.in/photo-shows-hybrid-of-toilet-and-drinking-fountain-in-migrant-detention-centers-where-women-allegedly-had-to-drink-from-the-bowl/articleshow/70041097.cms</ref> and then voted ''against'' bills to provide funding for humanitarian relief.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/28/ocasio-cortez-senate-mcconnell-house-border-bill-tapper/</ref> | In January 2019 President Trump made a nationally televised address from the Oval Office to request funding from the Democratically controlled House for the growing humanitarian crisis on the Southern border.<ref>https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/president-trump/trump-makes-humanitarian-case-for-wall-calling-border-situation-%E2%80%98a-crisis-of-the-soul%E2%80%99/ar-BBRZJlh</ref> Democrats and the [[mainstream media]] called it a "manufactured crisis,"<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K8dwSt1hog&feature=youtu.be</ref> denying such a crisis existed.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/03/x-times-the-media-said-there-was-no-crisis-at-the-southern-border/</ref> After a photo of the bodies of a father and his 23 month old daughter who drowned in the [[Rio Grande]] river trying to enter the United States illegally was widely published,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PxNj4_mEVg</ref> some Democrats, most notably [[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]], falsely charged the U.S. with maintaining "[[concentration camp]]s" on the Southern border since the Obama era,<ref>https://www.ushmm.org/information/press/press-releases/statement-regarding-the-museums-position-on-holocaust-analogies</ref><ref>Walter Shaub was the Obama era director of the United States Office of Government Ethics, now Senior Director of the election law organization Campaign Legal Center. https://archive.fo/tMEu5</ref> forcing migrants to drink toilet water,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q48Ch_6kU5A</ref><ref>https://www.businessinsider.in/photo-shows-hybrid-of-toilet-and-drinking-fountain-in-migrant-detention-centers-where-women-allegedly-had-to-drink-from-the-bowl/articleshow/70041097.cms</ref> and then voted ''against'' bills to provide funding for humanitarian relief.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/28/ocasio-cortez-senate-mcconnell-house-border-bill-tapper/</ref> |