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Biden Under Fire for Telling South Carolina Immigrant Rights Activist Demanding End to Deportations to 'Vote for Trump'

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Presidential hopeful Joe Biden visits Rock Hill's Clinton College Former vice-president and presidential hopeful Joe Biden rallied Thursday at Clinton College. Biden's visit drew hundreds of people to the college. By Tracy ...
Presidential hopeful Joe Biden visits Rock Hill's Clinton College Former vice-president and presidential hopeful Joe Biden rallied Thursday at Clinton College. Biden's visit drew hundreds of people to the college. By Tracy ...
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During a South Carolina campaign event Thursday night, former Vice President Joe Biden told a protester confronting him over Obama's mass deportation policies to "vote for Trump," prompting outrage from immigrant rights groups.

Biden refused to agree to the demand, insisting that he will "prioritize deportations only of people who have committed a felony or a serious crime.""You should vote for Trump," Biden repeated as Carlos Rojas, an organizer with Movimiento Cosecha, urged the former Vice President to depart from the destructive record of the Obama White House and support a moratorium on deportations.

Rojas replied that he wants to ensure immigrants living in the United States don't have to live in fear of deportation and separation from their families."You have the power, as a candidate, to commit to stop all deportations from day one. We want to hear you say that," Rojas said.

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