Dr. Jill Biden is expressing her sadness over a report detailing the struggle lawyers appointed to locate migrant families separated by the Trump administration are facing to find the parents of over 500 migrant children.
Co-host of “The View” Joy Behar asked Biden how the Trump administration should be held accountable and what her husband would do to alleviate the situation.
“We wouldn’t even be here if Joe were president. So, there would be no separation of families at the border. And I traveled to the border last Christmas… and I served a Christmas meal to the thousands of people who were there. We have to find a way to reunite these families,” Biden said.
She added, “As a mother… it breaks my heart. I can’t even imagine it and I think all Americans feel that way. I don’t care whether you’re a Democrat, whether you’re a Republican. If you’re a mother, if you’re a grandmother, this breaks your heart.”
Watch her comments below:
.@DrBiden on reports of lawyers being unable to find parents of 545 migrant children separated at US-Mexico border: “I don’t care whether you’re a Democrat, whether you’re a Republican. If you’re a mother, if you’re a grandmother, this breaks your heart.” https://t.co/WHJoEpvUU4 pic.twitter.com/JCtzhyqYz4
— The View (@TheView) October 21, 2020
According to a filing from the ACLU on Tuesday reported by NBC News, lawyers are afraid two-thirds of those parents were deported to Central America without their children, as IJR previously reported.
Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, said:
“There is so much more work to be done to find these families. People ask when we will find all of these families and, sadly, I can’t give an answer. I just don’t know. But we will not stop looking until we have found every one of the families, no matter how long it takes. The tragic reality is that hundreds of parents were deported to Central America without their children, who remain here with foster families or distant relatives.”
The group Justice in Motion revealed it is currently searching for parents in Mexico and Central America.
According to Justice in Motion, they have “located many deported parents” but “there are hundreds more who we are still trying to reach.”
