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November 13, 2020

Cecilia Muņoz, Who Defended Family Separations Under Obama, Joins Biden Transition Team
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Joe Biden has named President Obama's former top immigration adviser
Cecilia Muņoz to his transition team. During her time in the White
House, Muņoz often justified Obama's harsh immigration enforcement
policies, including the administration's deportation of thousands of
Central American children and its decision to kill an executive order
that would have halted deportations. In 2011, Muņoz was interviewed by
PBS's Maria Hinojosa.

Cecilia Muņoz: "At the end of the day, when you have an immigration law
that's broken and you have a community of 10 million, 11 million people
living and working in the United States illegally, some of these things
are going to happen, even if the law is executed with perfection. There
will be parents separated from their children. We don't have to like it,
but it is a result of having a broken system of laws. And the answer to
that problem is reforming the law."



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