NBC News Hides Biden’s Migrant Deaths, but Grills JD Vance on ‘Family Separation’



by Neil Munro 26 Aug 2024

NBC News tried and failed to get vice-presidential candidate JD Vance to validate the Democrats’ “family separation” talking point, in the hope he would damage President Donald Trump’s promise to deport illegal migrants.

But host Kristen Welker ignored the reality that President Joe Biden’s administration has permanently separated at least five thousand dead migrants from their families by not enforcing border law since 2021.

Those thousands of migrants have died in jungles, seas, rivers, and worksites, from floods, blizzards, accidents, bandits, and storms. The huge death toll has permanently separated thousands of parents from children, and children from parents, all because Biden dangled the offer of entry into U.S. society.

Yet NBC host Kristen Welker ignored Biden’s massive separations as she pushed Vance to promise that illegal migrants will not be separated from their children when the adults are jailed for violating border laws:

Would you separate families as a part of your mass deportation effort? … Let me ask this fundamental question: will families be separated under your mass deportation? …. Many people want to know the answer to this : Will families be separated under your mass deportation policy?

Vance nimbly fended off Welken’s questions while denying her any video snippets for use in Democratic attack ads. He told her:

What Kamala Harris says is that Donald Trump wants to separate families. Kamala Harris’ policies have led to thousands upon thousands of migrant children living with sex traffickers and drug cartels. That is the consequence of her policies …

There was a zero tolerance [border enforcement] policy during the Trump administration, and that led to less family separation than under Kamala Harris’ border policies. That’s what’s so striking about this. Actually enforcing our border is the most humane thing, for children and certainly for American citizens.

“But I don’t hear you denying that families will be separated,” Welken complained.

“The root causes of migration, I would say, Kristen, is that Kamala Harris refuses to do her job as border czar,” Vance said.

Democratic candidate Kamala Harris “ran away” from Biden’s request that she take a central role in the migration crisis, according to administration officials who spoke to Axios.com.



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9:52 AM · Aug 25, 2024

Welken added a comment after she lost the interview to Vance:

And a note on Senator Vance’s claim about family separation. The numbers show the Trump Administration separated more than 5500 families, most of them under than zero-tolerance policy. The Department of Homeland Security says currently up to a thousand children are separated from their families.

Even if 1,000 children and youths are still somehow separated from their illegal-migrant parents in a world linked by cellphones, the harm is less than the death of several thousand migrants on their way to Biden’s dangled welcome.

Here’s an overview of the vast death toll caused by Biden and Harris’ decision to let the nation’s pro-migration border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas, welcome several million economic migrants.

In April 2024, Rep. Mark Green (R-TN), the chairman of the House’s Committee on Homeland Security, reported:

according to the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration (IOM), the number of migrants intending to illegally cross our border who have perished along the way, either en route to the United States or at the border, almost doubled during the tenure of Alejandro N. Mayorkas as secretary of Homeland Security from an average of about 700 a year during the fiscal years 2017 through 2020 to an average of about 1,300 a year during fiscal year 2021 through 2023.

An average death rate of 1,300 people adds up to 4,000 dead migrants since January 2021.

For example, Biden’s 2022 death toll includes 895 discovered bodies in deserts, mountains, and rivers, plus 96 people killed while crossing the border, plus 55 people killed while being pursued, pursued, processed, or detained by border agents, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Many migrants are killed in U.S. worksites, partly because they are often untrained and can be easily replaced.

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