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It must be pointed out that 23 members of the Republican Party voted against the resolution because they said the resolution wasn’t aggressive enough in critiquing Omar.

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It's also important to note that the president has a troubling record on the issue of calling out anti-Semitism himself. In the days after white supremacists marched in Charlottesville chanting \"Jews will not replace us,\" the president claimed there \"very fine people on both sides.\"

During his presidential campaign, he told the Republican Jewish Coalition \"“You’re not going to support me because I don’t want your money,” which critics note rings of the same antis-Semitic tropes Congressman Omar is accused of trafficking in.

The Times of Israel published a timeline of its concerns about Trump’s anti-Semitism controversies in 2016.

And the same publication recently pointed out that there are now 34 Jewish members of Congress and “all of the Jews in the Senate are Democrats, as are all but two in the House.”

Kelly breaks silence... and facts

On Tuesday, President Trump's former chief of staff John Kelly, who finally broke his silence months after leaving the White House, blamed the fallout from the controversial \"zero tolerance\" policy of separating migrant children from their parents squarely on then-U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

On Tuesday, President Trump's former chief of staff John Kelly, who finally broke his silence months after leaving the White House, blamed the fallout from the controversial \"zero tolerance\" policy of separating migrant children from their parents squarely on then-U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

He also said that other government agencies were caught off guard by the “surprise” policy and did the best they could to respond.

Kelly must have forgotten that while he served as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, family separation was under consideration, and a policy he endorsed.

\"Yes, I'm considering (that), in order to deter more movement along this terribly dangerous network,\" Kelly boldly declared in an interview with CNN in 2017. \"I am considering exactly that. They will be well cared for as we deal with their parents...\"

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Kelly was speaking at an event at Duke University. He also told the audience he didn't believe in building a wall from \"sea to shining sea\" and that he opposed the president's decision to deploy active-duty troops to the Southern border. Kelly is a retired four-star general and was considered one of the most hawkish voices in the White House on the topic of illegal immigration.

Kelly's recent comments contradict his own arguments on behalf of the separation policy in the days after it was announced by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, in which he argued it could be an effective deterrent to stem the flow of migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border.

\"It could be a tough deterrent — would be a tough deterrent,\" Kelly said in a May 2018 interview with NPR. \"A much faster turnaround on asylum seekers.\"

Nielsen's truth ratings

Appearing before a Democratically controlled House committee for the first time, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen falsely suggested that every migrant family who was deported during her tenure was given the opportunity to take their children with them.

\"To the best of my knowledge, every parent was afforded that option,\" Nielsen said.

But an ongoing ABC News project documenting immigration at the US-Mexico border has found that claim is simply not true.

Jesus, a migrant from Honduras who requested his family name not be published, told ABC News he was tricked into being deported without his 6-year-old son, Ariel. Read more about his story here.

The Department of Homeland Security would not comment on Jesus's claims, but that there could be as many as 471 cases in which parents who were removed from the country without their children and without being given the opportunity to elect or waive reunification.

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