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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCecilia Munoz, Who Defended Family Separations Under Obama, Joins Biden Transition Team
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/11/13/headlines/cecilia_munoz_who_defended_family_separations_under_obama_joins_biden_transition_teamJoe Biden has named President Obamas former top immigration adviser Cecilia Muñoz to his transition team. During her time in the White House, Muñoz often justified Obamas harsh immigration enforcement policies, including the administrations deportation of thousands of Central American children and its decision to kill an executive order that would have halted deportations. In 2011, Muñoz was interviewed by PBSs Maria Hinojosa.
Cecilia Muñoz: At the end of the day, when you have an immigration law thats broken and you have a community of 10 million, 11 million people living and working in the United States illegally, some of these things are going to happen, even if the law is executed with perfection. There will be parents separated from their children. We dont have to like it, but it is a result of having a broken system of laws. And the answer to that problem is reforming the law.
liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)But she acknowledges that they need to be fixed, and Congress is the body that does this. This is why we desperately need those 2 GA Senators. We need to fix the broken immigration laws in this country. Anyway, I found doing a quick read up on some interviews she's done was interesting.
DeltaLitProf
(768 posts)That sounds like advocacy to change those laws.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)children who swarmed the border with sponsors to care for them. The vast majority were teens, and a majority of the sponsors were parents or other relatives. But many good people offered their homes to the rest while their disposition was decided.
That they separated families like Trump is a long-disproven lie pushed ardently by both contemptibly unprincipled leftists and the trumpists their behaviors too often resemble.
Here's one of many links you could start with to confirm the truth. Also, any time a slur against Democrats draws comparisons with the evil the Republicans do, check it out because it's going to be, at very best, unacceptably misleading.
AP: NOT REAL NEWS: Obama didn't separate 90,000 migrant families
https://apnews.com/article/e7f0710bfff44acda5012c794c8f92a2
stillcool
(32,626 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)it'll be the takeaway for most people, because most do not read further. Despicable smear successfully delivered.
And everyone should note this is a farther-left medium, not Fox or Breitbart.
Grrrr!!!
stillcool
(32,626 posts)and it's all they do. It's not like they don't have plenty of time to flush things out.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Those who troll for fools seemingly never run out of victims, as least they never stop.
Sigh.
Cha
(297,123 posts)Stein.
But yeah.. go down That road.