And before anybody says “Biden still locks up migrant children,” temporarily holding an unaccompanied minor (for a few days until a relative is located) is not the same as forcibly taking kids from their parents.
Highlights: On Monday, the Biden administration reached a settlement in a lawsuit brought on behalf of families separated at the US-Mexico border due to Donald Trump’s so-called “zero-tolerance” policy, under which immigration agents removed thousands of migrant children from their parents.
The Trump administration knew it couldn’t properly keep track of children and parents after piloting the practice in 2017, an investigation by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General found. But it moved forward with family separations anyway.
Many parents were also deported without their children, which made it extraordinarily difficult to reunite those families.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_administration_family_separation_policy
This Wikipedia article lists the timeline and a lot of the challenges.
A short timeline:
---- Biden Inauguration in January 20 2021 ----
Now in the timeline you will see that just 2 weeks after inauguration Biden signed an order and establishes a Task Force to take care of it. As he has a lot of things to do, this is probably the best way to handle the problem.
When you look into the Wikipedia page you will also notice that trump’s policy didn’t include a plan to reunite families. The administration also explained as early as June 2018 that they can only reunite 60 children, because they referred to the “central database”, and there was not enough information in there to reunite the other 666 children with their families.
You might want to argue further that “he should have done more” and “the children are still not reunited under Biden”, but let me talk in academic English for a second. The policy got the families fucked beyond repair. Biden tried his best but holy shit is there a lot of chaos to navigate. Let’s also agree on that fact that reuniting families without any information to base off of is really fucking hard. Also, you are saying the president has a lot of power, which is right. But do you realize how many problems a president has to take care of in a month? That’s a metric fuckton of equally important problems to tackle, half of which need to be formulated through very complicated legal jargon.
I conclude that Biden did everything he can. And I really think there’s topics which he can be blamed for. This is not the one.