Article originally appeared on www.dailywire.com.
In the waning days of the campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris is trotting out an old talking point: that former President Donald Trump “separates” migrant families and puts kids in “cages.”
But mounting evidence shows that Harris was instrumental in forging a status quo where migrant children are incentivized to cross the border alone — and then placed with unrelated sponsors, many of whom traffic and otherwise exploit the vulnerable youth.
In an October town hall on the Spanish-language network Univision, Harris highlighted what she called “Trump’s cruel family separation policy,” saying if Trump is reelected, he would “rip families apart.” Harris was referencing Trump’s use of holding centers — also used by the Obama administration — to house unaccompanied minor children while they awaited placement with sponsors. The Biden-Harris administration smeared those facilities as “cages,” and emphasized placing unaccompanied minors with sponsors …
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