President decries Trump administration that ‘literally ripped children from the arms of their families’ as he signs executive orders
Joe Biden plans to create a taskforce to reunify families separated at the US-Mexico border by the Trump administration, as part of a new series of immigration executive actions signed at a ceremony in the Oval Office on Tuesday.
Biden condemned Donald Trump’s immigration policies as a “stain on the reputation” of the US.
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