USA TODAY reached out to Being Libertarian for comment. Schwartz said a senior manager called the conditions at the facility, "a ticking time bomb."
The picture in the meme - minus the inserted Barack Obama - of a crowded enclosure full of migrant children at a border facility in Texas was released by the Office of the Inspector General in 2019, according to a tweet by NBC News correspondent Gadi Schwartz. The page is an extension of Being Libertarian LLC, a group that caters to "minarchists, classical liberals, anarchists, independents, Objectivists, capitalists, and right/left-leaning libertarians," according to its website.
The meme was posted to the Facebook page Vintage Political Memes. Guy who built the cages."īarack Obama is implied as the "guy who built the cages."įact or fiction: We break down the rumors and send fact checks right to your inbox. The text above the image reads, "Michelle Obama: Trump is putting kids in cages. "Obama" stands in front of crowds of fenced-in children who are supposedly migrants detained at the southern U.S. Former President Barack Obama's head was superimposed over the face of a person in a construction worker's outfit. The claim is illustrated in a Facebook meme that recently went viral. Watch Video: Michelle Obama, wearing 'VOTE' necklace, calls Trump 'wrong president' The claim: Michelle Obama criticized the Trump administration for putting kids in cages, but the cages were built during the Obama administration