Bernie Sanders (Immigration)

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.

(BSWI)

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)