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Sanders says concern for immigrant rights led to voting against 2007 immigration reform (Original Post) yerop Aug 2019 OP
What Bernie Sanders told Lou Dobbs in 2007 comradebillyboy Aug 2019 #1
So, That is Why He Is Sounding The Alarm About Asian and Latino immigrants? TomCADem Aug 2019 #2
 

TomCADem

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2. So, That is Why He Is Sounding The Alarm About Asian and Latino immigrants?
Sun Aug 18, 2019, 10:30 PM
Aug 2019

Remember when Donald Trump said he wants fewer immigrants from “shithole countries” and more from places like Norway? I guess Bernie can say the same thing, but using "progressive" sounding language:



https://www.latinorebels.com/2019/04/15/sandersimmigrants/

Are people really taking Bernie Sanders to task about what he told Trevor Noah last week during The Daily Show’s Between the Scenes digital segment?

As Sanders stated (bold and italics are our own emphasis):

“Nobody, I mean not many people believe in open borders. If you simply opened the borders, you’d have people from Vietnam and China and Mexico and Latin America coming in. And no one thinks that is a plausible approach. On the other hand, I think the strength of this nation is the diversity and the new ideas from immigrants from all walks of life have given this country. So you need a rational, non-racist immigration policy which welcomes people in from all over the world to improve our economy, but clearly you cannot have open borders.”

Ironically enough, Sanders’ stance against “a rational, non-racist immigration policy” gets a bit lost when he also thinks that it’s a bad idea to “have people from Vietnam and China and Mexico and Latin America coming in.”
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