Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden opened a new line of attack Thursday on Donald Trump, accusing the Republican president of deliberate cruelty to children after the administration ended a policy shielding certain immigrants from deportation if they're seeking life-saving medical treatment
"He's seeking to deport sick kids," Biden said while campaigning Thursday."It's just wrong. It's wrong. ... Cruelty is the point. It's their only point. It's all they have to run on: fear, anger, division, cruelty."
That's not the explanation the government has given some immigrants, sending them letters in recent weeks telling them they have about a month to leave the country, without mentioning any alternative way to seek a medical exemption. "Every nation has a right and necessity to protect their borders, and I will do that," Biden said Thursday."But the way we are treating immigration right now is not who we are."
At issue is a special deferred action status sought by about 1,000 applicants annually, according to federal officials. It has functioned much like the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that Obama created 2012 for immigrants brought to the country illegally as minors. Trump also has sought to dismantle that policy.
Biden's condemnations of Trump are in line with other Democrats running for president, but that hasn't inoculated the former vice president from criticism on the issue.
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