These are Trump and Biden's promises to Latinos and how they collide with reality

WASHINGTON DC— Eager to add votes among Latinos, who can decide the presidential elections on November 3, the two candidates have coincided this Thursday in Florida, and also when presenting their proposals for this group: the president, Donald Trump , has said that it will solve the future of the dreamers if it obtains a second term;

and his rival, Democrat Joe Biden, has vowed to reunify separated families on the southern border

With five days before Election Day, Biden leads Trump in most polls, albeit by a very narrow margin in key states like Florida, Pennsylvania and Michigan.

The Latino vote favors Biden, but Trump maintains solid support among a third of this electorate.

[Telemundo Poll: Hispanics support Biden in these key states as much as Clinton in 2016, except for one]

Thus, both the White House and Biden's campaign team highlighted today, in calls with journalists, their respective plans for the reactivation of the economy and the well-being of families and businesses in the Hispanic community if they win in the elections. next November 3.

Trump's plans

A high-ranking Administration official, who requested anonymity, indicated today that the White House is committed to providing "a permanent solution" to young people covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. in English).

Trump "offered [a solution to] DACA more than three times to Congress, and unfortunately, Congress has refused to accept those plans."

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The official failed to say that it was Trump who ended DACA in 2017, and that in all negotiations with Congress he conditioned aid to Dreamers on comprehensive reform of the immigration system and funds for his promised border wall.

His plans were rejected not only by Democrats but also by the Republican-controlled Senate.

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More than 650,000 undocumented youth have benefited from DACA, which was instituted in 2012 by then-President Democrat Barack Obama, as a temporary measure while he negotiated immigration reform with Congress.

Trump dismantled the program in September 2017, although it has remained in place - only for renewal of permits - thanks to a Supreme Court ruling.

Trump "has demonized Latinos from the minute he announced his candidacy [in 2015]; whether it be the separation of families or the cancellation of DACA, we know who he is and what he thinks of us," said Alida Garcia, vice president of the FWD group. .us. 

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In the call, the official also affirmed that, under Trump's presidency, the United States "will never be a socialist country" and that his government will maintain sanctions against communist regimes.

Trump has been trying for months to create the narrative that Biden is a "socialist," even though nothing in his political career suggests it.

However, the official could not specify whether Trump will support a Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program for Venezuelans who cannot return to their country due to political instability, as Florida lawmakers have requested. , where that population is concentrated.

The official did point out that the American Dream Plan aims to expand educational and economic opportunities for Hispanics, including the creation of more than two million jobs.

Trump has always insisted that, prior to the pandemic, Hispanics had had the lowest unemployment rate in history, an increase in the percentage of homeowners, and other advances in social advancement.

But much of those achievements are due to the extensive economic strength that Trump inherited in 2017, Ryan Zamarripa, an economic analyst at the Center for American Progress (CAP), told Noticias Telemundo.

Trump "claims that he created the best economy in history, but the reality is that he inherited robust growth from the Obama-Biden Administration,

from the end of the Great Recession to the inauguration of Trump," he said. Zamarripa.

In that period, non-farm employment rose 11.2%, and employment among Latinos rose 30%, and the Gross Domestic Product grew 18.4%, he said.

Currently, the unemployment rate for Hispanics is 10.3%, above the national rate of 7.9%. 

An analysis released today by CAP, in which Zamarripa collaborated, indicated that the 2017 tax cuts law actually increased the wage and wealth gap for Hispanics, compared to the white majority.

On immigration, Stephen Miller, Trump's senior adviser, made it clear yesterday that the president will continue his fight against illegal immigration and will take measures to reduce legal immigration, with the idea of ​​"protecting American workers."

[Trump will continue his "strong hand" policy against immigrants if re-elected, according to his adviser Stephen Miller]

Miller did not explain what plans the Trump Administration has to reunify 545 children who were separated from their parents at the southern border, two-thirds of whom have already been deported to Central America.

Biden's plans

Biden's campaign, for its part, said today that if he wins, he will sign an executive order on the first day of his presidency to create a task force to reunite the 545 migrant children still separated from their parents.

Cristóbal Alex, Biden's senior adviser, did not offer details on who and how many would be part of that working group, but did emphasize that the separation of families, under the zero tolerance policy that the Trump Administration instituted between April and June 2018, had a "profound impact on the former vice president."

The campaign released a video, narrated by the former Secretary of Housing, Julián Castro, which details the plan to “better rebuild” the economy and help the “nearly 25 million unemployed people”, and the millions who have lost their wages, health insurance, or business.

Biden's plan, Castro explained, focuses on creating jobs and preventing large corporations from relocating their operations abroad, as has allegedly happened under the Trump Administration.

Biden "will ensure that large companies pay their fair share of taxes and will

to sell their products in the US" at a higher price, said Castro, the once only Latino in the presidential race. that he left on January 2.

According to Matt Barretto, co-founder of pollster Latino Decisions, his latest polls give Biden an edge even in Florida, a state where the former vice president will travel again.