United States: each First Lady defends a "cause", what will be that of Jill Biden?
The First Lady of the United States, Jill Biden will be personally "engaged and invested" in a working group under the leadership of the likely future Minister of Homeland Security.
United States First Lady Jill Biden will participate in her husband's government efforts to reunite migrant families separated by Donald Trump's administration, the White House said on Friday.
In keeping with one of his campaign pledges, Democratic President Joe Biden plans to announce on Tuesday the "launch of a task force on the reunification of migrant families and children," his spokesman, Jen Psaki said at the meeting. 'a press conference.
"His wife Dr. Biden will be personally involved and invested" in this team under the leadership of Alejandro Mayorkas, who is to be confirmed Minister of Homeland Security Monday by the Senate, she added.
A First Lady still active
Jill Biden, 69, has a doctorate in education and plans to continue teaching at a university near Washington despite her husband entering the White House.
In December, she visited a migrant camp in Mexico, near the border with Texas. "We are a welcoming nation, but that is not the message we send," she lamented at the time.
Contrast with Melania Trump
Its tone contrasts with that of Melania Trump, the wife of the former president, who visited migrant children in 2018 with a jacket crossed out "I really don’t care, do u?" (I don't care, do you?).
That year, Donald Trump's government decreed a “zero tolerance” policy on the border with Mexico, which led to the separation of hundreds of families.
The tragedies experienced by the children had sparked an outcry even in the ranks of the Republicans and the billionaire had ordered in June to put an end to it, a judge imposing on his side the reunification of divided families.
The authorities then identified just over 2,700 children to reunite with their parents.
But the parents of 611 children separated when they entered the United States have not been found, according to the powerful civil rights association ACLU.
And the majority of deported parents remain stranded in their home countries away from their children, she said, asking the Democratic government to allow them to return legally to the United States.
