‘3 million deportations’: Protesters heckle Biden, evoking deportations under Obama

Published August 1, 2019 1:20am ET



For the third time in the first hour of the Democratic presidential debate, protesters from the audience interrupted the event, this time attacking Joe Biden for the number of deportations that occurred while he served as vice president.

CNN moderator Don Lemon asked, “In the first two years of the Obama administration nearly 800,000 immigrants were deported, far more than during President Trump’s first two years. Would the higher deportation rates resume if you were president?”

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