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October 23, 2020

'They are so well taken care of': Trump defends separating migrant children from parents
By Rick Jervis


At Thursday’s debate, Trump repeatedly claimed that only a small percentage of the immigrants released under the Obama administration ever attend their court hearing. In fact, more than 80% of immigrants attend their court hearings, according to a 2019 report by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University in New York, which tracks immigration statistics. Asked by Welker to respond to Trump’s claims, Biden said: “It’s simply not true.” Trump also denied that migrant children were arriving in the United States with family members.


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