Brief:

Former President Barack Obama said that racism is the reason conservative Americans oppose Biden’s immigration stance.

“Right now, the biggest fuel behind the Republican agenda is related to immigration and the fear that somehow America’s character is going to be changed if, people of darker shades, there are too many of them here [sic],”  Obama told a meeting of Hispanic realtors on September 25 in San Diego, California.

Background:

Obama said to the San Diego Union-Tribune:

I wish I could be more euphemistic about it except [they’re] not that subtle about it — they’re just kind of saying it. You hear it on hard-right media, you hear it from candidates and politicians, you hear things like ‘great replacement theory’ — I mean, this is not subtle. Unless we’re able to return to a more inclusive vision inside the Republican Party, it’s going to be hard to get a bill done.

But former President Obama’s recent comments are in stark contrast to his strong deportation policy during his Administration.

In 2017, Newsweek detailed Obama/Biden policy, documenting that Latino immigration advocates labeled him “deporter in chief.”  From Newsweek:

For a Democrat, Obama took a fairly tough stance, particularly early in his presidency, toward undocumented immigrants. From 2009 to 2016, his administration oversaw the forcible removal of more than 3 million undocumented immigrants -- most of whom were sent back to Mexico. Neither Bill Clinton, nor George W. Bush, Obama's two predecessors, came close in reaching his tally over their two terms.

Newsweek continued:

In March 2014, Janet Murguia, president of the National Council on La Raza, a Latino advocacy group, called Obama 'the deporter-in-chief.' It was a criticism that activists leveled at Obama throughout his presidency.