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Joe Biden\u2019s campaign for president re-confirmed last week that the former vice president remains committed to a 100-day moratorium on deportations if he is elected president in November.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLike [Biden has] said before, as President he is committed \u2026 to a 100-day moratorium for people living and working in the United States,\u201d said campaign spokesperson Jennifer Molina in an email to El Tecolote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Biden, 77, first proposed the moratorium in February during a CNN Democratic presidential candidate town hall broadcast live from Las Vegas on the eve of the Nevada Causes.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The then-floundering establishment candidate, reviled by many progressive Democrats for being too moderate, told<\/a> the town hall audience, \u201cNobody is going to be deported in my first 100 days,\u201d qualifying his promise with a confusing remark about convicted felons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The night after the CNN town hall, Biden dined with a group of Latino activists and political operatives at a taco joint in Las Vegas. There, he doubled-down on his moratorium promise to Mayra Macias, the executive director of the Latino Victory Fund, who some say suggested the moratorium to Biden in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMayra really deserves a lot of the credit,\u201d says a source present at the taco joint in Las Vegas. \u201cShe asked the Vice President in front of everyone there if he was 100 percent committed to the moratorium. He said yes and seemed totally sincere about it.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n