Biden makes plans to undo 'national shame' of Trump child separations
Issued on: 03/02/2021 - 04:52
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In May 2018 a six-year-old Honduran boy named Andres was wrested kicking and screaming from his father by US border guards implementing Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" policy toward undocumented immigrants.
It took another 10 months for the pair to be reunited -- but they were among the lucky ones.
Hundreds of migrant children like Andres are still waiting to rejoin parents after being taken away by the Trump administration.
President Joe Biden has prioritised creating a special task force to reunify the families as part of his sweeping redo of Trump's immigration policies, which focused on deterring migration from Central America.
"It was a moral failure and a national shame that the prior administration used family separation as a weapon against desperate families and children," an administration official told journalists, briefing on Biden's plans.
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