Democratic debate protesters have been immigrant rights activists

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Democratic debate protesters have been immigrant rights activists

Protesters from RAICES, a distinguished immigrant rights group, interrupted former Vice President Joe Biden’s closing remarks throughout Wednesd


Protesters from RAICES, a distinguished immigrant rights group, interrupted former Vice President Joe Biden’s closing remarks throughout Wednesday’s Democratic debate, chanting “No youngsters in cages!” and “Don’t look away!”

The protesters additionally yelled, “You deported three million folks!” in reference to the record-high deportations that occurred throughout Biden’s time as vice chairman, for which advocates known as former President Barack Obama the “deporter in chief”:

RAICES was the identical group liable for exhibitions of youngsters lined in mylar blankets in chain-link cages all through Des Moines forward of the Iowa caucuses, together with at caucus websites and the town corridor. Every set up performed an actual recording of a kid who was saved in detention.

“The horrors at our border and all through our immigration system are too usually ignored by the general public and politicians,” Erika Andiola, chief advocacy officer at RAICES, stated in a press release earlier than the Iowa caucuses. “We’re asking folks in Iowa and throughout the nation: Don’t look away from the terrors enacted in your identify. This anti-immigrant crackdown has to finish.”

It’s not the primary time that Biden has confronted protesters in the course of the Democratic debates. In the course of the September debate, 4 beneficiaries of Deferred Motion for Childhood Arrivals, this system giving authorized protections for younger unauthorized immigrants, interrupted his closing remarks with chants of “We’re DACA recipients! Our lives are in danger!”

Biden has intently tied his candidacy to his time as Obama’s vice chairman. His immigration plan even repeatedly mentions Obama’s accomplishments, together with the previous president’s efforts to supply authorized standing to sure unauthorized immigrants and move complete immigration reform. However Biden has additionally struggled to reply to persistent criticism of immigration enforcement ways beneath the Obama administration, notably within the first 4 years of his presidency — and activists appear decided to remind him of that truth.



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