Posted on September 14, 2019 by Paul Mirengoff
Biden and Yang display ignorance about immigration
Immigration was always going to be a topic of discussion during Thursday’s Democratic debate. Thus, the candidates should have been prepared to speak about immigration, if not intelligently than at least without getting basic facts wrong. As Mark Krikorian documents, Joe Biden and Andrew Yang were unable to pass this modest test.
Biden claimed that during the Obama administration, “we didn’t lock people up in cages; we didn’t separate families.†That claim is false, as even CNN acknowledges.
Yang displayed his ignorance by declaring, “I would return the level of legal immigration to the point it was under the Obama-Biden administration.†But that’s where the current level is. According to Krikorian, an expert in this area whether or not one agrees with him about immigration policy:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/09/biden-and-yang-display-ignorance-about-immigration.php
