{"id":245447,"date":"2021-03-18T08:30:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T12:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=245447"},"modified":"2021-03-18T08:30:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T12:30:23","slug":"bidens-2019-surge-to-the-border-comments-resurface-amid-growing-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-2019-surge-to-the-border-comments-resurface-amid-growing-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s 2019 \u2018Surge To The Border\u2019 Comments Resurface Amid Growing Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbidens-2019-surge-to-the-border-comments-resurface-amid-growing-crisis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=245447&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1751.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden is facing renewed criticism over past remarks that he made while on the campaign trail about immigration-related issues on the southern border.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks, which come from a September 2019 Democratic presidential debate, recirculated online as Biden deals with a crisis that has unfolded under his leadership on the southern border.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by host Jorge Ramos about deportations that happened during the Obama-era and why Latinos should trust Biden, Biden responded, \u201cWhat Latinos should look at is comparing this president to the president we have is outrageous, number one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t lock people up in cages,\u201d Biden claimed. \u201cWe didn\u2019t separate families. We didn\u2019t do all of those things, number one.\u201d As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/factcheck\/2020\/08\/26\/fact-check-obama-administration-built-migrant-cages-meme-true\/3413683001\/\">USA Today<\/a> noted in an Aug. 2020 fact check, the Obama administration approved and built the so-called \u201ccages\u201d designed to temporarily hold migrant minors.<\/p>\n<p>A few moments later, Biden stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"16\">\n<p><em>What I would do as president is several more things, because things have changed. I would, in fact, make sure that there is, we immediately surge to the border&nbsp;<\/em><span lang=\"EN\">\u2014&nbsp;<\/span><em>all those people are seeking asylum, they deserve to be heard. That\u2019s who we are. We\u2019re a nation who says, if you want to flee, and you\u2019re freeing oppression, you should come.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.9908675799087\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Flashback:<\/p>\n<p>In the first Democratic primary debate, Biden says when he\u2019s president, illegal immigrants should \u201cimmediately surge to the border\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Fq1vCNEN75\">pic.twitter.com\/Fq1vCNEN75<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1372145222872928260?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>TRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"71\">\n<p><em>RAMOS: <\/em><em> Vice President Biden, as a presidential candidate, in 2008, you supported the border wall, saying, \u201cUnlike most Democrats, I voted for 700 miles of fence.\u201d This is what you said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Then 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\u2019ve been asked this question before and refused to answer, so let me try once again. Are you prepared to say tonight that you and President Obama made a mistake about deportations? Why should Latinos trust you?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BIDEN: What Latinos should look at is comparing this president to the president we have is outrageous, number one. We didn\u2019t lock people up in cages. We didn\u2019t separate families. We didn\u2019t do all of those things, number one.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Number two, number two, by the time, this is a president who came along with the DACA program. No one had ever done that before. This is the president that sent legislation to the desk saying he wants to find a pathway for the 11 million undocumented in the United States of America. This is a president who\u2019s done a great deal. So I\u2019m proud to have served with him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>What I would do as president is several more things, because things have changed. I would, in fact, make sure that there is, we immediately surge to the border <span lang=\"EN\">\u2014<\/span>&nbsp;all those people are seeking asylum, they deserve to be heard. That\u2019s who we are. We\u2019re a nation who says, if you want to flee, and you\u2019re freeing oppression, you should come.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I would change the order that the president just changed, saying women who were being beaten and abused could no longer claim that as a reason for asylum.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And by the way, retrospectively, you know, the 25th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act is up. The Republican Congress has not reauthorized it. Let\u2019s put pressure on them to pass the Violence Against Women Act now!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>RAMOS: Yeah, but you didn\u2019t answer the question.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BIDEN: Well, I did answer the question.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>RAMOS: No, did you make a mistake with those deportations?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BIDEN: The president did the best thing that was able to be done at the time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>RAMOS: How about you?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BIDEN: I\u2019m the vice president of the United States.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden is facing renewed criticism over past remarks that he made while on the campaign trail about immigration-related issues on the southern border.The remarks, which come from a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310725,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1751.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden\u2019s 2019 \u2018Surge To The Border\u2019 Comments Resurface Amid Growing Crisis","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1751.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden\u2019s 2019 \u2018Surge To The Border\u2019 Comments Resurface Amid Growing Crisis","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}