The Trump Administration's decision to adopt a zero-tolerance policy for immigration has spurred a range of emotions and responses as well as viral reactions and images.

Nearly 2,000 children have been separated from adults as a result of the policy, which was enacted in April and refers adult immigrants caught crossing the border without authorization for criminal prosecution.

Following is a look at the accuracy of some claims made on social media, by the Trump administration and by proponents and opponents of the policy:

Claim: Children are being assigned numbers

A photo posted June 17 on social media by actress Debra Messing shows a young boy with "#47" on his chest and arm. The caption says the boy was taken from his parents and assigned a number "Like the Holocaust" and urges people to call members of Congress.

MISSION, TX - JUNE 12: A boy and father from Honduras are taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents near the U.S.-Mexico Border on June 12, 2018 near Mission, Texas. The asylum seekers were then sent to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) processing center for possible separation. U.S. border authorities are executing the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy towards undocumented immigrants. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions also said that domestic and gang violence in immigrants' country of origin would no longer qualify them for political asylum status. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) (John Moore / Getty Images)

A closer look at the uncropped original photo shows the numbers appear to be part of the design of the boy's shirt.

The caption of the photo, taken by John Moore for Getty Images, says the boy and his father from Honduras were being taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents June 12 near Mission.

The father and son had not yet been processed and were together when the photo was taken.

"The asylum seekers were then sent to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing center for possible separation," the caption reads.

Every unauthorized immigrant in government custody gets assigned an "alien number," but that's usually an eight- or nine-digit number — not two like the one in the photo.

Claim: A young boy was kept in a cage

A photo of a young boy in a blue shirt distraught while apparently in a cage spread quickly over the internet last week.

The photo was shared on Twitter by Pulitzer Prize-winner and immigration activist Jose Antonio Vargas, who emigrated from the Philippines to the U.S. as a child. The initial tweet says, "This is what happens when a government believes people are 'illegal.' Kids in cages." It was retweeted more than 24,000 times and got more than 35,000 likes.

In a follow-up tweet, Vargas said he was trying to find a source for the photo, which he saw on a friend's Facebook timeline.

The photo does not, in fact, show a child detained at the border, as some have insinuated. It was taken this month at a Dallas protest organized by the Texas chapter of the Brown Berets de Cemanahuac.

At the protest outside City Hall, people stood inside the enclosure that was set up holding signs against separating families. One of the pictures on the group's page shows the boy running outside of the cage.

In a since-deleted Facebook post, Leroy Pena shared the photo of the boy in the cage and said that it was part of the protest, but "this is actually going on right now, at this very moment, in child detention centers throughout the country."

Reached by Politifact, Pena said he took the photo right after the boy followed his older brother into the enclosure. The boy spotted his mother outside the space and got upset. His mother quickly took him out, Pena said.

MCALLEN, TX - JUNE 17: In this handout photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Border Patrol agents conduct intake of illegal border crossers at the Central Processing Center on June 17, 2018 in McAllen, Texas. (Handout / U.S. Customs and Border Protection via Getty Images)

While that photo does not show a child detained at the border, The Associated Press has described one warehouse facility in South Texas as housing immigrants in "a series of cages created by metal fencing." The cages in each wing open to common areas with portable restrooms.

Reporters were allowed to briefly visit the facility Sunday, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection shared handout photos that show the metal structures at a McAllen facility.

Claim: Obama-era policies weren't so different

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Claim: This law has always been on the books

The Trump administration has claimed families are being separated at the border because the law requires it.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions' used the Bible to defend the policy, saying, "I would cite you to the Apostle Paul and his clear and wise command in Romans 13, to obey the laws of the government because God has ordained them for the purpose of order."

In a White House briefing, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she was not aware of Sessions' comments but said it is "very biblical to enforce the law."

So does the law the president cites exist and are the Democrats to blame? Read on for more:

The Associated Press and The New York Times contributed to this report.