Biden on Univision: Deporting 3 million 'was a big mistake'

Former Vice President Joe Biden said the fact that the Obama administration deported 3 million undocumented immigrants, many of whom had no criminal records, “was a big mistake.”

“We took far too long to get it right,” the Democratic presidential candidate said in a Friday interview with Univision’s Jorge Ramos in Henderson, Nevada.

Biden said the administration did not begin to “get it right” with regard to immigration until after its first term. The former vice president also did dispute that the administration deported more people than any administration before them as well as the Trump administration, though that fact has been widely reported on since he and Obama left office.

The interview, which will air Sunday on Univision “Al Punto,” comes a week before the Nevada caucuses, a nominating contest that is seen by many as the first test of how the Democratic primary candidates fair among people of color, particularly Latinos, who make up almost 30 percent of Nevada’s population.

A poll by the Las Vegas Review-Journal showed Biden polling at 18 percent in Nevada, which holds its caucuses on Feb. 22.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/483242-biden-on-univision-deporting-3-million-was-a-big-mistake