{"id":301083,"date":"2021-03-24T14:30:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T18:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=301083"},"modified":"2021-03-24T14:30:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T18:30:47","slug":"jill-biden-disappears-from-planned-effort-to-reunite-child-migrants-separated-from-their-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jill-biden-disappears-from-planned-effort-to-reunite-child-migrants-separated-from-their-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Jill Biden Disappears From Planned Effort To Reunite Child Migrants Separated From Their Families"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjill-biden-disappears-from-planned-effort-to-reunite-child-migrants-separated-from-their-families%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=301083&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1140227202-e1608386284582.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>First Lady Dr. Jill Biden pledged, after her husband was sworn into office, to lead a task force to reunite child migrants separated from their families at the United States-Mexico border under Trump-era immigration, with relatives in the United States, but activists who planned to work with the First Lady\u2019s office say she\u2019s \u201cbacked away\u201d and \u201cdisappeared\u201d from the effort.<\/p>\n<p>In January, just a week after President Joe Biden took the oath of office, Forbes reported that Jill Biden \u201cwill be taking part in seeing that the remaining children\u201d separated under President Donald Trump\u2019s immigration policies \u201cfind their families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder the Trump administration\u2019s \u201czero-tolerance\u201d policy,&nbsp;more than 5,400 children were separated from their families after entering the U.S. without documentation,\u201d the outlet noted. \u201cSince then, the policy has been overturned, and lawyers have stepped in to aid in the reunification efforts. Still, though, without a consistent paper trail, those involved have been unsuccessful in reaching the remaining children\u2019s families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow,\u201d Forbes continued, \u201cFirst Lady Dr. Jill Biden will be taking a special interest in the task at hand. As stated by the report, three sources close to the reunification planning efforts have confirmed that the First Lady, alongside her East Wing staff, will have an \u2018active role\u2019 in the process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jill Biden decided on the plan after visiting a camp for asylum seekers blocked by Trump\u2019s \u201cremain in Mexico\u201d policy, which required migrants to await asylum hearings outside of the United States. Biden claimed to have been \u201cvisibly shocked\u201d by the situation, and told reporters that the conditions were \u201cheartbreaking to see.\u201d She served food to the camp\u2019s residents and passed out Christmas toys to the children of migrant families.<\/p>\n<p>Now, though, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/03\/22\/jill-biden-immigration-migrant-families-477559\">White House tells Politico<\/a> Jill Biden has &nbsp;\u201cno formal role\u201d in any task force to reunite separated migrant children with their families, and immigration activists say Biden has \u201cbacked away\u201d from their efforts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be enormously helpful if Dr. Biden brought her experience to bear on reuniting these families because there is a lot of work to be done and, thus far, there has been no concrete progress,\u201d an ACLU lawyer told the outlet. \u201cWe hoped that the task force would be ready on day one and families would have already been reunited but it looks like this is going to be a slow process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others say they fear the issue has become too hot, politically, for the First Lady to take an active role.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a little worried it\u2019s deprioritized or viewed as politically sensitive,\u201d one told Politico.<\/p>\n<p>The White House told the media, simply, that the reunification task force is a Department of Homeland Security project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe work of the task force is being led by the Department of Homeland Security,\u201d a spokesperson said. \u201cAs the task force is an interagency task force, with members comprised of representatives from the relevant federal government agencies, the First Lady does not have any formal role.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, the Biden administration has come under increasing scrutiny over its policies toward child migrants. As of late last week, reports indicated that as many as 15,000 unaccompanied minor children were being housed in border detention facilities after being caught crossing the border, seeking asylum. Many are being held for longer than the 72-hour window for processing allowed by law, and photos that emerged earlier this week show difficult conditions within the overcrowded facilities. The photos show children packed shoulder to shoulder in small rooms, in areas deliniated by plastic sheeting, with little but packaged food, plastic mattresses, and silver emergency blankets.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jill Biden has not spoken on the so-called \u201cchild migrant crisis,\u201d and neither her husband, President Joe Biden, nor his Vice President, Kamala Harris, have concrete plans to visit the border.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Lady Dr. Jill Biden pledged, after her husband was sworn into office, to lead a task force to reunite child migrants separated from their families at the United States-Mexico &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311082,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1140227202-e1608386284582.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Jill Biden Disappears From Planned Effort To Reunite Child Migrants Separated From Their Families","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1140227202-e1608386284582.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Jill Biden Disappears From Planned Effort To Reunite Child Migrants Separated From Their Families","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}