Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will sign an executive order to create a task force dedicated to locating the parents of 545 migrant children if he is elected president in November.
Biden’s campaign announced the pledge in a digital ad released on Wednesday.
The ad features a clip from the final presidential debate where Biden torched the Trump administration for allowing family separation at the border.
“Their kids were ripped from their arms and separated and now they cannot find over 500 sets of those parents and those kids are alone. Nowhere to go. It’s criminal,” Biden said.
Trump replied, “They are so well taken care of. They’re in facilities that were so clean.”
Watch the ad below:
The narrator concludes the ad, “On his first day as president, Joe Biden will issue an executive order creating a federal task force to reunite these children with their parents.”
According to a filing from the ACLU reported by NBC News, it is feared the administration deported two-thirds of those parents to Central America without their children, as IJR previously reported.
The group Justice in Motion announced the organization is searching for these parents in Mexico and Central America.
Trump explained during the debate children are brought to the United States by “coyotes” and “lots of bad people” including cartels.
Watch his remarks below:
Trump says "we're trying very hard" to find the parents of more than 500 children separated at the border.
— Bloomberg Originals (@bbgoriginals) October 23, 2020
Biden: "These 500-plus kids came with parents. …Coyotes didn’t bring them over, their parents were with them. They were separated from the parents” #Debates2020 pic.twitter.com/yMzVozsPiC
Trump touted the nation’s border with over 400 miles of “brand new wall.”
The moderator pressed him on how plans to help reunite these families.
“We’re trying very hard,” Trump said.
Biden argued, “These 500 plus kids came with parents. They separated them at the border to make it a disincentive to come to begin with.”
He added, “Coyotes didn’t bring them over, their parents were with them. They got separated from their parents and it makes us a laughing stock and violates every notion of who we are as a nation.”