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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,044 posts)
Wed Jan 27, 2021, 10:40 PM Jan 2021

First lady Jill Biden's staff to monitor task force to reunite separated families

Source: USA Today

First lady Jill Biden's chief of staff will be involved in monitoring the Biden administration's effort to reunite children taken from their parents at the border under former President Donald Trump's roundly condemned family separation policy, her spokesman said Wednesday.

President Joe Biden, who called the Trump family separation policy a "moral failing," has vowed to form a task force to help reunite the more than 600 parents who remain separated from their children and whose whereabouts are unknown, more than two years after the policy was banned.

So far, Biden has signed a flurry of executive orders covering multiple topics, issues and goals, but the task force is not yet formed.

Once it is in operation, his wife, a college English professor, has tasked her top staffer, Julissa Reynoso, with keeping track of progress on family reunifications, a tricky task but also a move that would underscore the new administration's high-profile attention to the families' plight.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/first-lady-jill-biden-s-staff-to-monitor-task-force-to-reunite-separated-families/ar-BB1d9zZu?li=BBnbfcQ&ocid=DELLDHP

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First lady Jill Biden's staff to monitor task force to reunite separated families (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2021 OP
Dr Biden, our FLOTUS is truly going to MontanaMama Jan 2021 #1
DNA samples could prove helpful I would think. nt live love laugh Jan 2021 #2
That's great. In one week she'll accomplish more than Melania did in four years... George II Jan 2021 #3
Thank you, DR Jill. sheshe2 Jan 2021 #4
Awesome Traildogbob Jan 2021 #5
Outstanding. Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2021 #6
Excellent! One of the major crimes against humanity Trump committed. Nitram Jan 2021 #7
Betsy Devos and Bethany Christian know where 81 of those kids are located. sarcasmo Jan 2021 #8
I am so happy to hear this that wnylib Jan 2021 #9
Yes. Totally Tunsie Jan 2021 #15
Great news! Warms my heart. KPN Jan 2021 #10
YMBL DENVERPOPS Jan 2021 #11
Couldn't find a better person to do it world wide wally Jan 2021 #12
Reuniting families is a great action. Jim__ Jan 2021 #13
K&R Blue Owl Jan 2021 #14
Thank you, Dr. Jill. Totally Tunsie Jan 2021 #16
What a great first start!! yuiyoshida Jan 2021 #17
good show . AllaN01Bear Jan 2021 #18
as opposed to that traitor melania who didn't care samsingh Jan 2021 #19
I don't mean to disparage any strong and sincere efforts by others that I have not heard of. BobTheSubgenius Jan 2021 #20
She should wear a green jacket that says, "I DO care" turtleblossom Jan 2021 #21
It's BEEN a while since we've had a First Lady, huh?.... Montauk6 Jan 2021 #22

George II

(67,782 posts)
3. That's great. In one week she'll accomplish more than Melania did in four years...
Wed Jan 27, 2021, 10:58 PM
Jan 2021

So when is Jill going to finish that tennis pavilion and redo the rose garden?

wnylib

(21,500 posts)
9. I am so happy to hear this that
Thu Jan 28, 2021, 12:36 AM
Jan 2021

I could cry for joy. My heart has been breaking for these families ever since the immoral, inhumane crime of separation began. I feel for the anguish of the parents, but worry even more for the psychological and emotional damage to the children.

We need to go further than reuniting them. We need to provide individual therapy for the children and family counseling for parents and children together.

We should also bring charges against Sessions, Miller, and Trump for creating and carrying out this policy. Let the counseling funds come out of the pockets of these despicable scum.

Jim__

(14,077 posts)
13. Reuniting families is a great action.
Thu Jan 28, 2021, 01:29 AM
Jan 2021

I can't believe that any Americans supported that barbaric policy of separating children from their parents.

BobTheSubgenius

(11,564 posts)
20. I don't mean to disparage any strong and sincere efforts by others that I have not heard of.
Thu Jan 28, 2021, 02:07 PM
Jan 2021

But if someone was going to put it on their Priority list, it was going to be Dr. Biden.

I've been impressed by the President for some time, but have not known much about her until quite lately. She impresses me, too. A lot.

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