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Title: Bernie Sanders: It's Time For Immigration Reform
Source:
Huffington Post
URL Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/ ... ers-immigration_n_7624086.html
Published: Jul 12, 2015
Author: Elise Foley
Post Date: 2015-07-12 19:48:22 by nativist nationalist
Keywords: None
Views: 1357
Comments: 14
After being criticized for staying quiet about immigration, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) vowed on Friday that if elected president, he would push for immigration reform and go even further than President Barack Obama in expanding deportation relief. "Despite the central role that undocumented workers play in our economy and in our daily lives, these workers are too often reviled by many for political gain and shunted into the shadows," Sanders, who is running for the Democratic presidential nomination, said in Las Vegas at the National Association of Latino Elected Officials conference. "Let me be very clear as to where I stand," he continued. "It is time for this disgraceful situation to end." Immigration hasn't been one of Sanders' central issues, and he hasn't discussed it much on the campaign trail. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), one of the leaders on immigration reform in the House, said earlier this month that he doesn't know if Sanders "likes immigrants, because he doesn't seem to talk about immigrants." "I hope he likes immigrants," Gutierrez said at the time. "I haven’t heard him say anything. He’s been kind of quiet and silent." At the NALEO conference, Sanders noted that he supported the comprehensive immigration reform bill that passed the Senate in 2013, as well as the never-passed Dream Act to provide legal status to undocumented young people who came to the U.S. as children. Sanders said that as president, if Congress did not pass immigration reform, he would use executive action to give deportation relief to the parents of U.S. citizens, legal permanent residents and so-called Dreamers, the would- be beneficiaries of the Dream Act. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, two of Sanders' rivals for the Democratic nomination, have also promised to push for immigration reform and expand deportation relief if necessary. Obama announced plans last November to allow some parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents to work legally on a temporary basis, but he excluded the parents of Dreamers, saying that such a move was beyond his authority. The relief program is currently blocked in the courts. Sanders has previously criticized certain aspects of immigration reform efforts -- particularly guest worker programs that he said could cost Americans their jobs and lead to lower wages. He spoke out against proposals for guest worker programs on Friday, too, but focused more on the exploitation of immigrants who "have been routinely cheated out of wages, held virtually captive by employers who have seized their documents, forced to live in unspeakably inhumane conditions and denied medical benefits for on-the-job injuries." Sanders said another of his priorities is to ensure that workers are not exploited by employers who think their undocumented status will prevent them from speaking out. He recalled a visit to Immokalee, Florida, in 2008, where he said he saw workers in tomato fields "being paid starvation wages, living in severely substandard housing and subjected to abusive labor practices." "The injustice in the lives of the workers was overwhelming," he said. "In fact, the situation was so bad that on the day I visited, two men were indicted for human slavery. Slavery, in the 21st century, in the United States of America."
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#8. To: nativist nationalist (#0)
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HUH?? These are "ILLEGAL INVADERS" who SHOULD be "hiding in the shadows" -- they're criminals. More than that, the "central role" they play in our economy AND in our "daily lives" is in CRATERING IT. Our quality of life is precariously DANGEROUS. Comrade Sander's has dropped waaaaay to much acid during the 60s.
#9. To: Liberator (#8)
He fits the profile of the radical leftist. Father emigrated to America from Poland, we had a lot of Jewish refugees come here from Poland in the early 1920's. They were refugees as a result of the Polish-Soviet, when the Soviets would overrun a Polish town they found a lot of collaborators among the local Jewish population, and it was from their ranks that the local commissars would be broken. When Poland took back territory the local population would settle scores, not unlike France in 1944/45. In that time the Soviet Union was predominantly run by Jewish folks. This was before Stalin took over, he was very anti-Semitic and his purges targeted Jews. In fact just before he died he was planning to kill large numbers of Jews. I suspect that Bernie's father made it over here in the early 1920's, that is when a lot of leftist radicals made it over. A big factor in the 1924 immigration factor was trying to stem the flow of these radicals into America. When the hippies arose in the 1960's it was from such stock. They were not rebels against their family values, communism was one the family values, along with hostility to Western culture. Allowing these people in as refugees was like allowing communist refugees into America from El Salvador. They should have gone as refugees into the Soviet Union. At that time it had a government of similar people. Very hostile to Christ. The slogan says "Ban religious holidays!" This is the type of government the Russians had under these folks. Today these imported Bernie Sanders Marxists are the cultural overlords of America, with similar targets. Pulling down crosses and statues of our history, just like ISIS destroying the artifacts of what went before, or a dog covering another dog's piss with his own.
HUH?? On this issue he is in perfect agreement with the RNC,including the alleged Republican front runners. Someone want to splain to me how Sanders is evil in the eyes of Republcans when he says that,while JEB and Lady Lindsey mostly get a pass for saying the same things?
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest"Despite the central role that undocumented workers play in our economy and in our daily lives, these workers are too often reviled by many for political gain and shunted into the shadows," Sanders said....
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#13. To: Liberator (#8)
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"Despite the central role that undocumented workers play in our economy and in our daily lives, these workers are too often reviled by many for political gain and shunted into the shadows," Sanders said....
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