Biden Corrects Himself For Using the Word 'Illegal' to Describe Undocumented Person

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President Joe Biden tells MSNBC he regrets using the word to describe the undocumented immigrant who is charged with killing a 22-year-old nursing student in Georgia.  Veuer's Elizabeth Keatinge has more.

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00:00 You use the word illegal when talking about the man who allegedly killed Lakin Riley.

00:06 An undocumented person. And I shouldn't have used illegal, I should have said undocumented.

00:10 President Joe Biden tells MSNBC he regrets using the word to describe the undocumented immigrant

00:18 who's charged with killing a 22-year-old nursing student in Georgia.

00:22 Biden responded to Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.

00:25 She had given him a pin honoring Lakin Riley.

00:29 Police say Riley was killed by a Venezuelan migrant who entered the country illegally in 2022.

00:36 Biden's 2021 executive order on restoring faith in our legal immigration systems

00:42 and strengthening integration and inclusion efforts for new Americans

00:45 affirms that the "federal government should develop

00:49 welcoming strategies that promote integration and inclusion."

00:54 unquote.

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