500 Missing Migrant Children Narrative Reaches Presidential Debate Stage Despite the Facts

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500 Missing Migrant Children Narrative Reaches Presidential Debate Stage Despite the Facts Davis ## Reporter 10/24/20 (Sat) 11:01:44 0fe532 No.267797

By Penny Starr

https://www.breitbart.com/author/penny-starr/

The surprise topic in the presidential debate on Thursday was the out-of-nowhere claim that President Donald Trump’s immigration policies have disappeared 500 migrant children.

Moderator Kristen Welker asked Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden about the narrative that surfaced just days ahead of the presidential election. The White House correspondent for NBC said:

Mr. President, your administration separated children from their parents at the border, at least 4000 kids. You’ve since reversed your zero tolerance policy, but the United States can’t locate the parents of more than 500 children. So how will these families ever be reunited?

Trump replied:

Children are brought here by coyotes and lots of bad people, cartels, and they’re brought here and it’s easy to use them to get into our country. We now have a stronger border as we’ve ever had. We’re over 400 miles of brand new wall, you see the numbers, and we let people in, but they have to come in legally.

“Do you have a plan to reunite the kids?” Welker asked.

“We’re trying very hard,” Trump said. “But a lot of these kids come up without the parents, they come over through cartels and the coyotes and through gangs.”

“Vice President Biden, let me bring you into this conversation.” Welker said. Biden said:

These 500 plus kids came with parents.They separated them at the border to make it a disincentive to come to begin with. Big real tough, really strong. And guess what? They cannot — it’s not coyotes that bring them over, their parents were with them. They got separated from their parents. And it makes us a laughingstock and violates every judge of who we are as a nation.

That immigration was inserted into the debate at the last minute is probably because of a misleading narrative that started when a federal judge in California ordered open borders legal groups to track down families who had been separated from the children because of Trump’s “zero-tolerance” policy.

https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/10/23/500-missing-migrant-children-narrative-reaches-presidential-debate-stage-despite-the-facts/

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