Former vice president Joe Biden thinks it’s “sinful” President Donald Trump is “seeking to deport sick kids seeking life-saving medical treatment in the United States.”
It’s “something that I never thought I’d see in America,” he told folks a campaign stop in South Carolina on Thursday.
President Trump has found his newest target — sick children. It’s sinful. pic.twitter.com/dgFT0vNbYC
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 30, 2019
The powerful accusation carries a special significance coming from a career politician who lived through the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy “in the 1970s,” and the horrific day “you had over 40 kids shot at Kent State on a beautiful lawn by the National Guard.”
Biden dropped the devastating news on a couple hundred who crammed into a room for a town hall at Clinton College in Rock Hill, where he demonstrated his “truth over facts” approach to 2020 presidential race.
“President Trump has found his newest target – sick children,” Biden posted to Twitter Thursday with a video of his prepared speech. “It’s sinful.”
“Just the last few days we’ve learned something that I never thought that I would see in America. And I mean that sincerely – his newest target is children. Children who are on life support, children dying of cancer, children with serious, serious diseases,” the 76-year-old said.
“Taking away – in addition to that – taking away automatic citizenship of children of some of our military members serving overseas,” Biden said. “Our servicemen and women give everything for this country – and this is the respect that President Trump shows for their service?”
Biden provided no context or details to substantiate the allegations, leaving locals to accept him at his word. The reaction to the rhetoric suggests most in the audience were buying it.
“He’s seeking to deport sick kids seeking life-saving medical treatment in the United States,” he alleged.
“Like every bully, he’s trying to make himself seem stronger by picking on the most vulnerable among us,” Biden shouted to applause.
“And folks, I’ve never said this about a president before, but it’s sinful what’s happening,” he said, adding the religious reference. “It’s not who we are. This is not who we are.”
Biden seemingly based his comments on recent news reports by the Associated Press, Vanity Fair, NBC and other outlets about a shift in authority over deportation deferments for medical reasons from the U.S. Customs and Immigration Service to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Fact-checkers sifted through Biden’s comments and found “everything” he said about the issue was a lie.
According to Breitbart, “there was never any such policy, and all the Trump administration is doing is moving discretion over individual cases from USCIS to ICE.”
“What has happened in the past is that illegal aliens – not legal ‘immigrants,’ as Biden suggested – were able to apply to an adjudicator at the Department of Homeland Security for deferment from deportation. The majority of ‘deferred action’ requests were denied by USCIS. Now they will be considered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which is an enforcement agency (as USCIS is not),” the news site reports.
Breitbart also pointed to a NBC correction about the allegations children of military service members serving overseas would no longer gain automatic citizenship.
“Experts who have looked at new NSCIS policy say it applies if a service member adopts a child overseas, but children born to service members on deployment would still automatically get citizenship,” the correction read.
Biden’s debunked claims are only the latest episode of what’s becoming a comical daily parade of easily disproven lies, brain freezes, and stuttering misstatements hobbling the elder statesman’s campaign for president.
In just the last few weeks, Biden has forgotten what state he was in, wildly embellished a tragic shooting at Kent State that left four dead in 1970, alleged he once “limited the number of clips in a gun,” forgotten where he spoke hours earlier, forgot President Obama’s name, said “poor kids” are just as smart as “white kids,” and alleged he met with survivors of the Parkland, Florida school shooting “while vice president,” when the incident occurred a year after he left office.
This week, The Washington Post thoroughly debunked a fabricated tale Biden often shares about pinning a medal on a heroic soldier in Afghanistan during his tenure as VP.
“Alright, well anyway,” as Biden often deflects, the nonstop “gaffes” are “part of his charm,” and it’s really just a product of the media’s “unfair standard” for the Democratic frontrunner, spokeswoman Kate Bedingfield told MSNBC this week.
“I want to be clear,” Biden recently said in New Hampshire. “I’m not going nuts.”
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