Immigrant activists last night confronted Joe Biden at a campaign town hall in Greenwood, South Carolina. “Every day I live with the fear that ICE will separate my family,” explained immigrant Silvia Morreno, who called upon the former vice president to support a moratorium on deportations through executive action on his first day of office. Biden refused.

Before walking out in protest, her translator, Carlos Rojas, from the immigrant activist organization Movimiento Cosecha, added: “In 2008, I was a volunteer for Obama because I had hope and I believed in the promises that he made to the immigrant community. The fact is that over those eight years, over three million people were deported and separated from families.” Biden’s response: “You should vote for Trump.”

Jacobin’s Eric Blanc spoke with Rojas about why they confronted Biden and what it will take to win full rights for immigrants.