Families Of Deported Immigrants Storm Biden Headquarters To Demand Apology

[True Dough]

UPDATE: 3:15 p.m. — After an hour and a half of protesting in the building’s lobby using megaphones and signs, Philadelphia police arrested six activists from the group. When police arrived, undocumented families left the building to avoid being arrested and potentially sent into ICE custody. The protest continues in front of the building, but so far, no one from Biden’s campaign has responded to the group.

PREVIOUSLY: A group of families whose loved ones were among the roughly 3 million people deported under the Obama administration will hold a sit-in at Joe Biden’s campaign headquarters in Philadelphia on Wednesday, saying they’ll refuse to leave until they receive an apology from the former vice president.

The group of roughly 40 families and activists, organized by New Jersey-based immigrant rights group Movimiento Cosecha, plan to ask Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign to commit to a progressive immigration platform and acknowledge the pain caused by deportations under President Barack Obama.

Obama set a record for deportations, although he narrowed his focus later in his presidency to removing convicted criminals, recent border-crossers and people previously removed from the country. (A change in how removals were counted also accounts for some of the record.)

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/families-of-deported-immigrants-storm-biden-headquarters-to-demand-apology_n_5d2614d8e4b0cfb595ff7e67

[MineralMan]

1. Interesting.

[Thekaspervote]

2. Well, people get desperate.

[msongs]

3. apologize for what, exactly. nt

[emmaverybo]

5. That America did not then have an open border policy and does not now. However, Obama's

Comprehensive Immigration Reform plan would provide a pathway to citizenship under DACA and for
many undocumented workers in the U.S. Biden will certainly support a sane, responsible, reforming
immigration policy and reinstate the right to legally seek asylum under criteria Trump has abolished.

[Mr.Bill]

4. I wasn't aware that Biden

was in charge of deportations in the Obama administration.

[cwydro]

6. Well, to be fair, if he wants to claim credit for being part of that administration, he has to own i

The bad with the good.

[Mr.Bill]

7. Were the deportations legal?

[5starlib]

8. What was bad?

Were the deportations illegal? If someone commits a crime, then good riddance.

[treestar]

13. If someone is not legally in the U.S., deporting them is not wrong

This is very wrong-headed on the part of those families. They act as if one has a right be illegally in the U.S.

And Obama/Biden was a lot kinder! Obama did DACA, which, it should remembered, the Dotard is trying to end.

This sounds like some sort of black op, because if immigrants have a problem, it should be with the Dotard Administration.

[saidsimplesimon]

9. Mr. Bill, best answer

Your reply suggests it would be wise to drop the curtain. I agree.

The putin, red team wants to make the 2020 election about fear of immigrants. They promised them that manufacturing jobs would be there, someday, maybe, if they only voted for a Republican. Rumpublican leaders know the whirlwind is coming to take them away. (That includes those so-called Christians who await the rapture. Their saviour walks amoung them.

I believe in "The Rule of Law". Nowhere does it say there is a superior race, and that race is the "White Male" (females don't count or get a 1/2 vote....snark)

[Demsrule86]

12. Sounds like the Russian what they did in floridas...such bullshit.

[saidsimplesimon]

15. Jog my memory,

Please give me a link, there are so may florida stories over the decades. I do know that Russian investors have been buying US assets long before Putin.

[Demsrule86]

18. Here is a link to one...probably more.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article200660314.html

[saidsimplesimon]

20. I will also check Tampa/St.Pete for background.

[Demsrule86]

27. Why would protestors protest Biden? And yet ignore Republicans...this is some sort of a set up

either the Russians or one of the other candidates running left of Biden. This will actually help him with moderate voters sadly...the lack of humanity is disheartening.

[oasis]

10. "Movimiento Cosecha" what or who gave them the notion to target

Democrat's best chance to beat Trump?

[Mr.Bill]

11. Good question. n/t

[treestar]

14. Yes, very suspicious

Obama did DACA and was going to even allow the same for parents of US citizens (DAPA) before the courts stopped him, while Trump is detaining asylum seekers, banning people from certain countries, ending every TPS he can, ending DACA, etc. etc.

[oasis]

22. I'm not ruling out the

folks who planted disinformation in our elections.

[highplainsdem]

24. They might be sincere, but their demands are unrealistic and if they ever got all the

Democratic candidates to agree to them, they'd help re-elect Trump.

A Twitter thread on why they're protesting Biden instead of Trump starts here:

Link to tweet

This is what they are demanding all 2020 candidates commit to:

1. An end to all detention & deportations on day 1
2. Immediate legalization for all undocumented immigrants
3. Family reunification for all

Since the thread makes clear they're protesting immigration policies back through the Bush administration, they apparently are insisting that candidates commit to bringing back to the US all illegal immigrants who were deported as far back as 2001.

[oasis]

32. If Democrats fail in their bid for the WH, these folks get ZERO.

I'm sure their "organizers" already know that. I sympathize with the aspirations of our immigrant population but, those who advocate for a radical change will come up empty handed.

[aikoaiko]

23. Its not surprising. They want the politicians who claim to do right by them...

...to do better.

There is no hope in protesting Republicans.

[oasis]

25. Doing shit which has the potential of suppressing voter turnout

is counter productive.

[highplainsdem]

31. See reply 24. They want immediate legalization of all undocumented immigrants, and the return to

the US of all who have been deported since 2001.

[TheRealNorth]

16. Because while Republican President is running Concentration Camps

These weenies are going to protest the Democrats.

I have no respect for these folks.

[ananda]

17. But who is really to blame for immigrant woes?

This is so sad. Displacing their anger on a Dem,
when the anti-immigrant Reeps are responsible
for all their woes.

[Demsrule86]

19. Either they were duped or they are fake protestors..bought and paid for by Russian or

Republican trolls.

[oasis]

26. +1. Because it makes more sense than anything else. nt

[Applegate]

33. They couldn't possibly have a problem with what Obama/Biden did, right?

Or see a chance to get publicity for their cause?

They must be dupes or trolls.

Sometimes people get a little too far down the partisan wormhole.

[Demsrule86]

34. Obama gave us the Dreamers...they are still here ...now after we lost the house what did you think

would happen? I have no respect for these protesters and no they shouldn't have a problem with Obama or Biden. Why don't they head on down to Mitch's office or the White House. As long as the GOP controls one branch of government, we will not have immigration reform...and they can protest all they want...it won't change. With Trump about to deport a million folks ...seems as if they are a bit mixed up or paid off or both.

[Otto Lidenbrock]

21. comes with the territory of already being in the white house

being the former vice president he has to own that record - good and bad.

and some people just never forgive - for example back in 2010 i was at a book signing for "white house diary" and some iranians demanded president carter apologise for admitting the shah for cancer treatment in the us thirty years earlier.

[Hoyt]

28. Assuming protesters are not working for GOPers, it seems a valid concern.

We are going to be stuck in this untenable position until we do something to stop conditions that force people to come here. That includes screwing Latin American countries by reneging on trade agreements by trump and some Democratic candidates, and correcting problems we are largely responsible for.

“Economic Patriotism” doesn’t sound like something that is going to help them.

[Thomas Hurt]

29. WTH are they protesting a Dem candidate in an election that is still months and months away.

They have any number of concentration camps, regional offices of the HHS, CBP, ICE, the fn WH, and they are picketing Biden?

[Demsrule86]

35. Probably paid by Putin...

[BannonsLiver]

38. +1

Follow the rubles. I never take stuff like this at face value anymore. Only a fool would.

[Demsrule86]

39. Yes... funny how this happens.

[tishaLA]

30. I can't imagine the hurt they must have

because their families have been ripped apart.

[SouthernProgressive]

36. He owes them no apology. NT

[BannonsLiver]

37. Fools.