Published 08:19 IST, October 23rd 2020

In debate, Trump defends immigration policies

President Donald Trump is defending his administration’s separation of immigrant children who remain away from their families following detentions along the U.S.-Mexico border.

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President Donald Trump is defending his administration’s separation of immigrant children who remain away from ir families following detentions along U.S.-Mexico border.

Trump said during Thursday’s debate that children are often brought across border t by families but “by coyotes and lots of bad people.”

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American Civil Liberties Union told a judge this week that re were still 545 children separated from ir parents from 2018.

Trump said his administration had constructed more than 400 miles of his promised border barrier. He also said, “y built cs,” referring to Obama-era facilities depicted in media reports during separations.

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Biden disputed Trump’s answer, saying kids “were ripped from” ir families in 2018.

As he has done since primary campaign, Biden defended Obama administration’s immigration policy, admitting that it “took too long to get it right.”

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08:19 IST, October 23rd 2020