Joe Biden Confronted by Protesters in NH Over Obama Deportations
“I will not apologize for deportation if the person committed a felony”
While campaigning in New Hampshire on Friday, Joe Biden was met with something he is probably very unused to seeing. Left wing protesters confronted him about deportations that occurred under the Obama administration.
Stephanie Murray reports at Politico:
Protesters rail against Biden on deportations
Protesters disrupted Joe Biden‘s first campaign event Friday at the start of his weekend swing through New Hampshire.
Frustrated by immigration policy under the Obama administration, a dozen activists led by national immigration group Movimiento Cosecha derailed Biden’s post-speech meet-and-greet with chants and signs, and called on Biden to apologize for mass deportations that occurred during his time as Barack Obama’s vice president.
Biden has come under fire for the 3 million deportations that occurred under the Obama administration, and Movimiento Cosecha recently held another protest at the former vice president’s campaign headquarters in Philadelphia.
About a dozen protesters surrounded Biden with signs that read “End all detention. End all deportation on Day 1” and “We haven’t forgotten 3 million deportations.”
The activists who interrupted Biden’s community event also introduced him to a Guatemalan man whose brother had been deported under Obama…
“I will not apologize for deportation if the person committed a felony,” Biden told the protesters, as his staff tried to clear a path through protesters and Biden supporters jockeying for selfies, to remove the former vice president from the crowd. “I will apologize for deportations if in fact they deported because, in fact, they were engaged in a misdemeanor and or their family was separated.”
Biden has made it clear that he is running on the record of the Obama administration, but he probably wasn’t counting on this being an issue.
As you’ll see in the video below, at one point the protesters start chanting in unison demanding an apology. Don’t you think some of these people probably voted for Obama in 2008 and/or 2012?
Also, does this mean Obama will be confronted by protesters like these at some point in the future? That would be something to see.
Watch below as Biden grapples with the new woke left his party helped create:
In case anyone has forgotten, this was an issue for Biden in the second night of the first debates.
Transcript via the Washington Examiner:
DIAZ-BALART: … the Obama-Biden administration was — the Obama-Biden administration deported more than 3 million Americans. My question to you is, if an individual is living in the United States of America without documents, and that is his only offense, should that person be deported?
(UNKNOWN): No.
BIDEN: Depending if they committed a major crime, they should be deported. And the president was left in a — President Obama I think did a heck of a job. To compare him to what this guy is doing is absolutely I find immoral.
(APPLAUSE)
But the fact is that, look, we should not be locking people up. We should be making sure we change the circumstance, as we did, why they would leave in the first place. And those who come seeking asylum, we should immediately have the capacity to absorb them, keep them safe until they can be heard.
DIAZ-BALART: Fifteen seconds, if you could, if you wish to answer. Should someone who is here without documents, and that is his only offense, should that person be deported?
BIDEN: That person should not be the focus of deportation. We should fundamentally change the way we deal with things.
I’m guessing we haven’t heard the last of this. If ICE carries out deportations this weekend, it will likely become a topic for the next debate, and Biden will be asked about it again.
He’s going to need a better answer than the one he gave to the protesters in New Hampshire.
Featured image via YouTube.
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Joe should have stayed out of this one. I don’t think he is up for the challenge.
Maybe this experience will teach Biden that all illegals need to be expelled. He could take that stand and differentiate himself from the rest of the mob.
He should be ashamed. He was deporting pre-Americans. If there’s no such thing as a paper American there’s no such thing as a real American.
An ISIS fighter can become a citizen and his citizenship is identical to the Marine corporal who was shooting at him. Get used to it legacy America is dying and you think it’s just pining for the fjords.
Once upon a time people thought the USA had unlimited natural resources. The land was infinitely bountiful. The very people now who wrap themselves in environmental protection can’t see that they are impacting the country as certain as uncontrolled clear cutting did to forests.
The fellow travelers know Cloward and Piven, the useful idiots think globalizing America can go on and on. The Left can manipulate human nature but they fail to see they can not change human nature…just by force make it look to be in their image..at a price of great suffering.
In the end they will blame others for not stopping them. It will still have been self-inflicted.
Only a dozen demonstrators? That tells me the usual rent-a-mob is sitting this out. And Politico is doing their part by not exponentially inflating the numbers from a dozen to the usual wild claims of hundreds or more.
Incidentally, anyone noticed that Handsy Joe Biden’s #TimesUp problem has vanished? Ah, to be able to enjoy #DemocratPrivilege ……
Apparently free dental care hasn’t yet been instituted for illegals.
“Biden has made it clear that he is running on the record of the Obama administration……”
I really feel bad for him, being so out of touch with reality and all.
“mass deportations ”
That did not happen, and we should confront untruthful lefties every time the term appears.
Every deportation order is issued on a case-by-case basis. That we have very large numbers of illegal aliens committing large numbers of felonies in this country does not mean we do mass deportations, any more than our cumulated number of traffic accidents results in “mass auto fatalities.”
Do not let them lie.
Obama did not in fact deport many at all. He just pretended to and cooked the books. Oh…..and remember how the MSM lauded him?
Yes. “Turned away at the border” somehow came to mean “deported” so they could make it look like O was doing his job…
So he’s not in favor of removing trespassers unless they’ve committed a felony?
Great. Somebody pitch a tent on his lawn. We’ll see how long that lasts.
Emigration reform to mitigate the progress of immigration reform at both ends of the bridge and throughout. Immigration at a rate not exceeding the rate of assimilation and integration before planned parenthood.
Maybe we should Gaddafi their nations, pull a Kiev when our interests fall short of democracy, or otherwise engaged in a Planned action for social justice.
That said, the President of El Salvador has acknowledged that the problem is immigration reform, which will be mitigated through emigration reform. Mexico has also taken baby steps to address the casualties and collateral damage forced by the former.
“Next you’ll be demanding free dental care…..oh..sorry. That just slipped out.”
the Obama-Biden administration deported more than 3 million Americans.
Calling BS on that one.
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He sure looks a lot older on the campaign trail than he does on TV doesn’t he? Two weeks off to recover between 3 hours of campaigning is not enough. Having to focus on his gaffability is stressful enough but.. Hey! Creepy Joe is primed for hugs! Where is the love?
That clip reminded me of when the protesters took away Bernie Sanders’ podium, and all he could do was stand by helplessly.
Old Slow Creepy Joe did a slightly better job, but he could hardly have done worse!
As Progressives progress, they always tend to eat their own as they attempt to show they are more “Progressive”.