As the debate comes to an end, the important topics of immigration and race are left to discuss. Since Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency, he has promised to come down on immigration and shared his consistent xenophobic ideology. In the most recent news of cruel actions the Trump administration has taken, a report found that more than 500 children kidnapped from their parents under the guise of Trump’s family separation policies have not been reunited with their parents, some after at least three years of separation. This is due to the sole fact that Trump deported these parents quickly without a trace.
When asked about this issue during the debate, Trump failed to acknowledge the separated families and what actions if any he would take to reunite them. Instead, he continued his racist rants on how these children are allegedly brought to the U.S. “Children are brought here by coyotes and lots of bad people, cartels, and they are brought here and they use them to get into our country,” Trump said. He then dove into gloating about his campaign promise of building a border wall. “We now have as strong of the border as we've ever had. We are over 400 miles of brand-new wall.”