Washington, United States
U.S. First Lady Jill Biden will be involved in her husband’s government efforts to reunite migrant families separated by the Donald Trump administration, the White House announced Friday.
According to one of his campaign promises, Democratic President Joe Biden plans to announce on Tuesday the “launch of a working group to reunite migrant families and children,” his spokesman, Jen Psaki, announced during a press conference.
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“His wife, Dr. Biden, will be personally engaged and dedicated” in this team gathered under the leadership of Alexander Mayorkas, who is to be confirmed as Secretary of Homeland Security on Monday by the Senate, he added.
Jill Biden, 69, holds a PhD in Education Sciences and plans to continue teaching at a university near Washington, despite her husband’s arrival at the White House.
In December, the first lady visited a migrant camp in Mexico, near the border with Texas. “We are a welcoming nation, but that is not the message we send,” he lamented then.
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Her tone contrasts with that of Melania Trump, the former president’s wife, who visited migrant children in 2018 in a jacket adorned with a print that read, “I really don’t care, do u? ” (I don’t care, do you?).
That year, the Trump administration enacted a policy of “zero tolerance” on the border with Mexico, which involved the separation of hundreds of families.
The dramas experienced by the children raised a cry to the Republican ranks and the tycoon ordered an end to them in June, at the same time as a judge ordered the reunification of divided families.