Left No Longer Seems To Care About Reuniting Families Now That Trump Is Gone

Written By BlabberBuzz | Friday, 09 April 2021 11:00 PM
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Left No Longer Seems To Care About Reuniting Families Now That Trump Is Gone

President Joe Biden reportedly has not joined any of the illegal immigrants maintaining to be family members who were separated at the border throughout former President Donald Trump's tenure notwithstanding Biden's repeated commitments to do so -- as recently as last month.

Biden in early February signed an executive order forming a task force to reunite the families, one of his trademark campaign commitments.

"Regarding the reunifications thus far, the task force has not directly reunified any families yet, and that's because we really are trying to build the processes and the information," a senior Department of Homeland Security official told Axios on Wednesday.

When the task force formed in February was published, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas named the effort “not only an all-of-government, but an all-of-society effort to do what is right.”

About 5,600 illegal immigrant children were reported to have been separated from family members throughout the time Trump was in office, and DHS officials are still filing through the cases, moving “as quickly as we can do,” they told Axios. They explained that a lot of the information they received from the previous administration was “incomplete” and that they were taking their time to be meticulous with their review "because we are very concerned about not retraumatizing" immigrant children.

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A record 2 million illegal immigrants or more are estimated to cross the border into the U.S. this fiscal year, which ends on Sept. 30.

The last time apprehensions by the U.S. Border Patrol exceeded 1 million was in fiscal year 2006, according to publicly open data from Customs and Border Protection.

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Border facilities are further grossly overcrowded and the Biden administration is struggling to open more shelters and transfer minors out of detention conditions that Biden last week called “unacceptable.”

“Is — that’s a serious question, right?” he asked a reporter who asked whether kids sleeping on floors and pressed into pods was acceptable. “Is it acceptable to me? Come on. That’s why we’re going to be moving a thousand of those kids out quickly."

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Biden continued: “That’s why I got Fort Bliss opened up. That’s why I’ve been working from the moment this started to happen to try to find additional access for children to be able to safely — not just children, but particularly children — to be able to safely be housed while we follow through on the rest of what’s happening.”

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The unprecedented border rush has quickly turned into a crisis.

"There's no other way to claim it than a Biden border crisis," House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., announced throughout a press conference at the border.

Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the American Civil Liberty Union’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, told Axios: “In the last week, we’ve made progress with the task force on reunifying the first group of separated families. The key will be whether that progress continues.”

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