Joe Biden claims we should not decriminalize illegal immigration

  It has become pretty clear that the 625 people who are running for President on the Democratic side of the aisle all have pretty much the same plan to win their party’s nomination and that is to out-left, or perhaps I should say out-crazy the other candidates.

  It is normal during the primary season for candidates on both sides of the aisle to move to either side before pivoting back to the center in the general election but the Democrats this time around have taken it to the extreme to the point where they may not be able to come back to the center and sound more reasonable to the more sane people in the country.

  This, however, leaves Joe Biden is a strange spot because he not only wants to compete for the alt-left hate-filled votes but he also wants to cash in on his association with Barack Obama and this primary has tilted so far to the left that the former President actually looks like a moderate by comparison.

  A perfect example of this is the student loan “crisis” and another is illegal immigration. In the latter case this oh-yeah-I-can-top-that brand of politicking has led incrementally to the candidates all having pledged to abolishing ICE, tearing down what border wall there is, pulling all border agents off of the border, and decriminalizing illegal immigration so that anybody can come into the country unchecked.

  Enter Joe Biden trying to walk that line, here is what the man with the glad hands had to say about this subject:

Host Chris Cuomo asked, “You have people who are running close to you now who are saying, decriminalize coming into the country illegally. Do you believe that should be decriminalized?”

Biden responded, “No, I don’t. I think people should have to get in line. But if people are coming because they’re actually seeking asylum, they should have a chance to make their case. I would be surging, as we did, and Barack and I did, surging folks to the border to make those concrete decisions.”

  Now that is a more reasoned answer than any of the other candidates have given but reasoned does not play well this time around so the former Vice President had to remind primary votes that this was also Barack Obama’s policy as well. 

  Of course the voters he is trying to appeal to have turned much more to the left than the country as a whole has and just throwing around Barack Obama’s name is not going to help him. In fact, I would say that these voters will take this statement much the same way they did  when he said he could work with segregationists just a couple of weeks ago.

malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium