Washington, United States:
US initial lady Jill Biden will participate in efforts by her husband’s administration to reunite households split apart by former president Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policies, the White House stated Friday.
In line with his campaign promises, President Joe Biden plans to announce on Tuesday “his launch of a task force on reunifying families and children. Something that he is personally committed to, his wife Dr Biden is personally committed to and invested in,” stated White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki.
The job force will be below the command of Alejandro Mayorkas, who is due to be confirmed by the Senate as head of the Department for Homeland Security on Monday, she added.
Jill Biden, 69, has a doctorate in education and plans to retain teaching at a university close to Washington although her husband serves as president.
In December, she visited a migrant camp in Mexico, close to the border with Texas. “We are a welcoming nation, but that’s not the message that we’re sending at the border,” she stated at the time.
Her tone was in marked contrast with her predecessor Melania Trump, who in 2018 visited youngsters who had been locked up by her husband’s policy of “zero tolerance” at the border and who wore a jacket with the logo, “I really don’t care, do u?”
Trump’s government separated hundreds of migrant households, with incredibly young youngsters becoming taken away from their parents, some of whom have been then deported.
The plight of the youngsters, taken from their parents and locked in detention centers, provoked such an outcry, even from some in the ranks of Trump’s personal Republican party, that he was forced to backpedal. A judge later ordered that the households be reunited.
Authorities identified more than 2,700 youngsters who required to be reunited with their parents.
But the parents of 611 youngsters have but to be positioned, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Most of the parents who have been deported stay stuck in their nation of origin, the ACLU has stated, calling on the US government to let them to legally return to the United States.
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