evidence: President Biden pushed back, calling Trump’s statements lies and "malarkey." Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than people born in the U.S., studies show. [...] Trump tried to frame the border as a free-for-all and chaotic, and Biden pointed out that under Trump, children were being separated from their families after crossing the border. "When he was president, he was taking, separating babies from their mothers, putting them in cages, making sure that families are separated," Biden said. "That’s not the right way to go."