Sen. Chuck Schumer said President Joe Biden supported immigrants while defending the reference to 'illegals' during his State of the Union speech.
Biden was addressing Congress Thursday night when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene interrupted and shouted out Laken Riley’s name, the college student in Georgia who was allegedly slain by an illegal immigrant. In response, the president went off script and responded, “Lincoln Riley, an innocent young woman who was killed by an illegal.
“Look, he showed in his heart how he feels for immigrants. He showed that he knows immigrants contribute greatly to America. He talked about our long history with immigrants and even showed real empathy for the family that lost a loved one in Georgia. So I think that Joe Biden comes out really well on the immigration issue in this speech,” Schumer said.
Biden extended an invitation to Riley’s parents, but they refused. During the State of the Union address, the House Republican speaker’s balcony“Democrats were on their back foot on immigration. Now we are on our front foot,” Schumer said about his party’s stance on immigration earlier in the episode. “We still have to answer some questions, but now we’re on our front foot, not our back foot.”
Reps. Chuy Garcia , Ilhan Omar , Delia Ramirez , and Joaquin Castro all issued statements condemning the president’s use of the term.up for debate in the Senate after it passed the House last May. The legislation limits asylum eligibility, prevents the Department of Homeland Security from processing immigrants who crossed the border between ports of entry, and provides grants for law enforcement’s border security operations, among other things.
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