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General Category => Elections 2020 => Topic started by: mystery-ak on February 15, 2020, 07:19:15 pm
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'You actually did': Journalist confronts Biden about locking immigrant children in cages
by Kerry Picket
| February 15, 2020 12:23 PM
Former Vice President Joe Biden argued the Obama administration’s containment of unaccompanied minors at detention centers along the southern border cannot be compared to the current administration’s hard-line immigration policies.
The discussion about immigration took place Friday when Univision anchor Jorge Ramos interviewed the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate.
"At the debate in Houston, you said that during the Obama administration and I quote, ‘We didn't lock people in cages,' but you actually did — not in the same numbers as the Trump administration, but you did,†Ramos told Biden on his Real America show.
“We found a picture of an 8-year-old boy from Honduras. ... I spoke with the photographer,†Ramos added, noting the photo was from a detention center in McAllen, Texas, in 2014.
“Yes. And what happened was, all the unaccompanied children coming across the border, we tried to get them out. We kept them safe and get them out of the detention centers,†Biden replied. “Essentially that center, that were run by Homeland Security and get them into communities as quickly as we can.â€
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/you-actually-did-journalist-confronts-biden-about-locking-immigrant-children-in-cages (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/you-actually-did-journalist-confronts-biden-about-locking-immigrant-children-in-cages)
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A reporter dared to acknowledge that Kidz in Kages pics were taken in 2014 (the most (in)famous ones in Arizona, IIRC)? And confront Creepy Joe with the truth? :silly: