Hillary Clinton rips Trump on migrant child detentions, but Bill Clinton’s own record cuts deep

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton criticized the Trump administration's immigration enforcement practices, warning that the detention of thousands of migrant children is causing "terrible damage" – but data from former President Bill Clinton's tenure shows a similar trend. "Terrible damage to children is being done in our name," Clinton shared in an X post on Wednesday, along with data showing the Trump administration has so far detained 6,200 children, with an average of 226 children held a day. Clinton’s criticism lands against a historical record that complicates the attack, because federal data from the 1990s showed hundreds of juveniles in custody on an average day under former President Clinton as immigration enforcement toughened. IGNORED ICE DETAINERS ‘PUT LIVES AT RISK,’ DHS SAYS, TARGETING NEWSOM, PRITZKER, HEALEY The Clinton administration's Immigration and Naturalization Service, a former agency within the Department of Justice, detained 4,136 unaccompanied illegal juveniles in fiscal year 2000 for longer than a 72-hour period, according to a Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report published in 2001. About 400 to 500 children were held in custody on an average day that same year, the report continued. In 1996, former President Clinton signed the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, two laws that expanded immigration enforcement by broadening mandatory detention and speeding up removals. The data Clinton referenced in her tweet came from the Marshall Project, a nonprofit news outlet that reports on the criminal justice system, and outlined detainee figures during the second Trump administration. "ICE does not target children or separate families," a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson told Fox News Digital on Wednesday when asked about Clinton's post. "Parents are asked if they want to be removed with their children, or ICE will…