Some of the key differences between the situation under the Obama administration and the one under Trump.: Horrific stories continue to stream in from the Southern border, where Customs and Border Protection is detaining hundreds of migrant children, separated from their families, in sickening conditions. As concerned citizens have voiced outrage at the Trump administration, activists have also pointed out that much of this isn’t new—the Obama administration also had infamously brutal immigration policies... there IS a difference, like the the Homeland Security Department, Defense Department and Justice Department, requested $4.5 billion to help care for the growing number of migrant children who are in shelters.4. billions needed to remedy this and house migrants waiting for the to appeal to our laws."