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Bloomberg News further reported that Biden said his Justice Department would investigate the Trump administration’s family separation policy, which resulted in the state-sanctioned kidnapping of thousands of children at the border.
“There will be a thorough, thorough investigation of who is responsible, and whether or not the responsibility is criminal,” Biden said according to the report. “That determination will be made by his attorney general-designate, Merrick Garland, he added.”
The Trump administration had in its possession additional information that could help reunite families that have remained separated since 2017, but only within the past weeks gave that data to advocates tasked by a court with finding deported parents, NBC News reported last month.
Angered by the delay, the judge subsequently demanded to know why officials delayed in sharing the data. “This is disturbing in that it seems to be readily available information and it was a matter of tapping into it,” Judge Dana Sabraw said according to Courthouse News Service (CNS).
The recent victories in Georgia that flipped the U.S. Senate to Democrats open the opportunity to pass humane legislation putting undocumented immigrants onto a path to citizenship, and implement oversight and accountability over federal immigration agencies that have carried out abuses like family separation and the preventable spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic within Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities.
Advocates have also urged Biden to use his executive authority to protect undocumented families as we fight for legislation:
“We expect that Congress will waste no time in opening a path to permanent residence for the more than 11 million undocumented folks living in this country,” RAICES leader Erika Andiola said, “& legislating to humanize the immigration system into one that welcomes those seeking home & safety.”
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