Democratic debate moderator claims Obama deported ‘three million Americans’

Published June 28, 2019 3:25am ET



José Díaz-Balart, one of the two moderators for Thursday’s Democratic primary debate, claimed President Barack Obama’s administration deported “three million Americans,” in an apparent slip-of-the-tongue during a question directed at former Vice President Joe Biden.

“The Obama-Biden administration deported more than three million Americans,” the Telemundo anchor stated. “My question to you is if an individual is living in the United States of America without documents and that is his only offense, should that person be deported?”

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