Immigration activist who protested Obama/Biden's immigration policies benefitted greatly from DACA

[wyldwolf]

On Wednesday, while the 4,000-odd attendees of the annual Netroots Nation conference were still en route to their hotels, dozens of protesters marched across the center of city to Joe Biden's newly opened campaign headquarters. Members of Movimiento Cosecha occupied the lobby, some of them standing behind a banner (BIDEN: WE HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN 3 MILLION DEPORTATIONS) and some speaking through a bullhorn.

“We can't forget Obama's legacy,” said Florida-based immigrant rights activist Catalina Santiago, who was born in Mexico. “He promised the immigrant community papers, an ability to have a dignified life. Yet eight years later, he deported 3 million people, and Biden was complicit in that.” ( WW note: politifact tells a slightly different, less black & white version.)

No one griped about the wins Obama had gotten over eight years — Santiago, the Biden protester, received protections under the Obama administration's DACA program for young undocumented immigrants — but they were fixated on what they hadn't gotten.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/paloma/the-trailer/2019/07/14/the-trailer-the-democrats-who-don-t-miss-obama-or-biden/5d288ae71ad2e552a21d53ab/