By Aaron Miller-
Former president, Barack Obama, will campaign for Joe Bidden today in Philadelphia as the former vice president leads in the polls in six of the key battleground states.
Obama, in his first live campaign appearance for Biden, will raise the stakes against Donald Trump rally voters in Philadelphia. Obama wants to capitalise on Biden’s edge.
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Biden has accused Trump of ripping babies from their mothers’ arms’ after new reports of family separations.
Joseph R. Biden Jr. called President Trump’s border policy an “outrage” and a “moral failing” which he would reverse if elected, responding to court filings that revealed that the parents of 545 children separated from their families under the Trump crackdown have yet to be located.
“This administration ripped babies from their mothers’ arms, and then it seems, those parents were in many cases deported without their children and have not been found. It’s an outrage, a moral failing, and a stain on our national character,” Mr. Biden said in a statement.
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Mr. Biden’s wife, Jill Biden, vowed to reverse the fate of families that has seen many separated at the boarder. “There would be no separation of families at the border” if her husband were elected.
“We have to find a way to reunite these families,” Dr. Biden, who met with refugees at a camp in Matamoros, Mexico, last year as part of her campaign to shed light on the policy, said during an appearance on “The View” on ABC. “As a mother, it breaks my heart, I can’t even imagine it. I think all Americans feel that way, I don’t care whether you’re a Democrat, whether you’re a Republican.”
Zero Tolerance Policy
Under Mr. Trump, in April 2018, the Justice Department announced a “zero-tolerance policy” for illegal entry into the United States that led to nearly 3,000 children being forcibly separated from adult family members who were detained on immigration-law violations.
Mr. Trump and his allies have often made the misleading claim that the separations began on President Barack Obama’s watch and that Mr. Biden, who was then the vice president, was complicit.
While the Obama administration did order the detention of migrants during a surge at the border in 2014, splitting up families was rare, according to current and former officials.
Mr. Obama will make the first of a series of homestretch appearances at a “drive-in rally” in the parking lot of the stadium where the Philadelphia Phillies play.
Mr. Obama told young people that they can create “a new normal” in American politics by going to vote.
“One of the most inspiring things about this year has been to see so many young Americans fired up, organizing, marching and fighting for change,” Mr. Obama said. “Your generation can be the one that creates a new normal in America. One that’s fairer, where the system treats everybody equally and gives everybody opportunity. We can come out of this moment stronger than before.”
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