Bernie Sanders (Immigration)
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Bernie's Immigration (section page)
Bernie Sanders Immigration Goals:
- Dismantle deportation programs and detention centers
- Create a way for a swift and fair legislative roadmap to citizenship for eleven million undocumented immigrants
- Broad eligibility for citizenship to all non-criminals in the US
- Establish a reasonable wait for citizenship of 5 years
- Regulate the flow of immigrants by modernizing the visa system and rewriting trade agreements
- End for profit prisons that lead to detention of immigrants
- Demilitarize the border in order to reduce costs and border deaths
- Expand support for refugees.
Quotes
"The injustice in the lives of the workers was overwhelming. 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." (latintimes)
