Quote (said_aouita @ Feb 8 2022 07:11pm)
What in the fuck does Joe saying driving drunk isn't a felony have to do with it supposedly being OK to drive drunk? What a stupid misleading thread title.
During the Brown & Black Democratic Presidential Forum, hosted by Vice News in Des Moines, Iowa, on Jan. 23, 2020, candidate and former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden was asked about what reforms he would bring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
In the course of his answer, Biden said he would change policy so that children of “undocumented” people don’t live in fear and uncertainty of their parents being deported. As one example, he said he did not consider “drunk driving” as a felony that justified an ICE agent arresting someone.
They [the children of ‘undocumented’ immigrants] go off to school wondering whether their mom comes and picks them up, is she not going to be there because an ICE agent was there to arrest her? Or she takes them to the doctor, that she’s going to not be there because she is ‘undocumented’ and an ICE agent is going to pick him up.
[…] You change the culture by saying you are going to get fired. You are fired if, in fact, you do that. You only arrest for the purpose of dealing with a felony that’s committed, and I don’t count drunk driving as a felony.
What Joe Biden is saying, unequivocally, is that drunk drivers are valued members of the community who should not be subject to deportation.
It's a thread title because most Americans believe that people who endanger the lives of others while living in a country illegally do not deserve to be there.