{"id":61461,"date":"2015-09-16T19:58:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T11:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=61461"},"modified":"2015-09-16T20:21:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T12:21:38","slug":"biden-trumps-view-on-immigration-will-not-prevail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/09\/16\/biden-trumps-view-on-immigration-will-not-prevail\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden: Trump&#8217;s view on immigration &#8216;will not prevail&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color:#fff;display:inline-block;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#a7a7a7;font-size:11px;width:100%;max-width:594px;\">\n<div style=\"overflow:hidden;position:relative;height:0;padding:66.666667% 0 0 0;width:100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/487602312?et=AbknrZ--RkNpYxEmFHwjww&#038;viewMoreLink=on&#038;sig=UHlN4Ap6l18Cic1OLqkEhTthNbHylLe62KuZPoiN1no=&#038;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"display:inline-block;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin:0;\">\n<div style=\"padding:0;margin:0 0 0 10px;text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/487602312\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\">View image<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\">gettyimages.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Vice President Joe Biden lashed out at Republican front-runner Donald Trump on immigration Tuesday, accusing him of reverting to &#8220;xenophobia&#8221; to garner support in the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, who is weighing a late entry into the Democratic presidential primary, called Trump&#8217;s message &#8220;sick&#8221; and predicted it &#8220;will not prevail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This will pass \u2014 the Trump stuff and that stuff that you&#8217;re hearing on the other team,&#8221; Biden said at a Hispanic Heritage Month event at his residence in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has roiled the Republican field with his call to remove the millions of people living in the U.S. illegally before allowing some to return. He&#8217;s also accused some Mexican immigrants of being rapists and vowed to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s comments mark a rare instance of top White House officials singling Republican presidential candidates out by name. On a visit to Iowa Monday, President Barack Obama avoided mentioning individual candidates even as he drew distinctions between Democratic and Republican positions, including on immigration.<\/p>\n<p>But while Obama definitely won&#8217;t be on the ballot in 2016, Biden is still contemplating a run. He&#8217;s spoken movingly in recent days about the impact of his son Beau&#8217;s death earlier this year and how his decision rests on whether he can make the emotional commitment to running for president.<\/p>\n<p>If Biden runs, his remarks Tuesday could serve as a template for his argument against Republicans in a general election. Both parties will be fighting for support from Hispanics, a fast-growing voting bloc that overwhelmingly supported Obama in the last presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, a Catholic, drew a distinction between Trump and Pope Francis, who is visiting the United States later this month. The popular pope has been a vocal advocate for humane treatment of immigrants and has spoken specifically about the conditions facing people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Watch the response that Pope Francis gets,&#8221; said Biden, who called the pontiff &#8220;the single most popular man in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As Biden closed his remarks, participants yelled &#8220;Run, Joe, Run.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, no, no, no, no,&#8221; Biden said, brushing their cheers aside and offering no new insights on his political future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View image | gettyimages.com WASHINGTON \u2014 Vice President Joe Biden lashed out at Republican front-runner Donald Trump on immigration Tuesday, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":61463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,483,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-politics","category-news-w","mauthors-julie-pace","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}