Opinion: Joe Biden flubbed yet another Democratic debate question about deportations (via latimesopinion)
. But it pointed to something significant — and I don’t mean any age-related cognitive lapses on Biden’s part.challenged Biden by saying, “You served as vice president in an administration that deported 3 million people, the most ever in U.S. history. Did you do anything to prevent those deportations? I mean, you’ve been asked this question before and refused to answer, so let me try once again.
But why didn’t Biden hammer home the obvious defense of Obama’s deportation record? Perhaps for the same reason other Democratic candidates have been reluctant to give their view on when deportation might be appropriate. That’s not just a matter of pandering to Democratic primary voters — not only Latinos — for whom generosity to migrants is a key issue. President Trump’s scorched-earth approach to migrants in the country illegally has been so cruel and so freighted with bigotry and xenophobia that it’s understandable that Democrats wouldn’t want to talk about how they would restrict immigration.
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