Lourdes hugs her son, León, separated at the United States border, in an image from August 7, 2018.ORLANDO ESTRADA / AFP
If Joe Biden is elected president of the United States, he will sign an executive order on his first day in office to create a task force dedicated exclusively to reuniting the 545 immigrant children separated from their families during the Donald Trump Administration and whose parents have not yet been found.
The new commitment of the Democrat has been broadcast in an announcement broadcast on televisions in Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Nevada.
With five days to go before the elections, both candidates fight to win the Latino vote, key to winning the White House.
"On his first day as president, Joe Biden will issue an executive order creating a federal task force to reunite these children with their parents," says the narrator of the ad.
Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) denounced last week in court in California that the “zero tolerance” immigration policy, implemented by the Trump Administration in 2017 and 2018, that the The government has left pending the situation of more than half a thousand children, who are alone in the US During the implementation of the controversial regulations, thousands of minors were separated from their parents on the border with Mexico for having wanted to enter illegal way.
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed last week that it had lost track of the families of 545 children, mostly from Central America.
The ACLU estimates that of the total number of minors who are still without their families, 283 do not have any information that can help attorneys find their parents.
To this adverse scenario, it must be added that at least 60 minors were separated when they were less than five years old and have vague memories of their place of origin and their family.
In the latest presidential debate, aired last week, Biden criticized the Trump Administration for the actions.
Looking directly at the camera, the Democrat described that those children had been ripped from their arms, separated from their relatives, “and now they can't find more than 500 of those parents, and those children are alone.
They have nowhere to go.
It's criminal, "accused the former vice president.
Trump explained that the Administration was "trying very hard" to reunite the children, adding: "They are so well cared for, they are in facilities that were so clean."
The US president also defended himself against Biden's attacks on immigration by blaming the Barack Obama government for the construction of the cages where they have often sent the undocumented, including minors, to await due process.
"Who built the cages, Joe?" The Republican insisted in the last face-to-face, leaving Biden speechless.
Like Trump, the Democratic candidate has participated this Thursday in campaign events in Florida.
The candidates for the White House are focusing their latest efforts on hunting down the Latino vote in a state that can define everything on November 3.
This week the senator for California, Kamala Harris, has visited Arizona and Nevada and has Texas and Florida scheduled for the coming days.
All territories with a large Hispanic population.
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