Media Outlets Retract Story Claiming Trump Administration Has Detained 100,000 Children in ‘Migration-Related US Detention’

Several news outlets had to make retractions after they falsely attributed the statistics of Obama-era migration-related child detentions to Trump’s.

Detainees sleep and watch television in a holding cell at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center in Nogales, Ariz., on June 18, 2014. Ross D. Franklin/AP Photo

Several news outlets were forced to make retractions on Nov. 19 after they falsely attributed the statistics of Obama-era migration-related child detentions to President Donald Trump from a U.N. report.

The Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency, Reuters, NPR, and The Associated Press were among the media organizations to withdraw their reports which claimed over 100,000 children were in migration-related U.S. detention.