Protesters from the action arm of the advocacy group Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES) interrupted former Vice President Joe Biden’s closing statements at the Democratic debate Wednesday in Nevada. Shouting phrases like “No kids in cages” and “You deported 3 million people,” the activists were quickly escorted from the debate proceedings.RAICES took responsibility for the action on Twitter.”BREAKING: We are interrupting @JoeBiden at the #DemDebate chanting #DontLookAway and #NoKidsInCages,” the group tweeted. “We need a Democratic candidate to adopt the #MigrantJusticePlatform and commit themselves to improve the lives of migrants and refugees!” Soon after their ejection from the debate, the protesters posted a video in which they explained their actions.”As you might have seen, we just interrupted the Democratic debate,” said one of the protesters, “and the biggest reason why we did that and we interrupted Biden is because for the last three debates, there has been absolutely no questions about immigration.””We decided to interrupt,” the protester continued. “We’re not sorry. The immigration debate today was the last issue they talked about and they didn’t even have time to talk about it. This is not okay.” Newsweek reached out to RAICES Action for further comment… Read full this story
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