The Daily 202: A pragmatic Bernie Sanders seeks an immigration compromise to protect 'dreamers'

[DonViejo]

The Daily 202: A pragmatic Bernie Sanders seeks an immigration compromise to protect ‘dreamers’

By James Hohmann February 14 at 8:30 AM

THE BIG IDEA: Democrats are so eager to shield young foreign-born “dreamers” from deportation that they’re now offering to make compromises that would have been hard to imagine a year ago. Republicans, who feel like they have them over the barrel, are demanding more.

Showing his pragmatic side, for instance, Bernie Sanders says he’s willing to pony up big for border security if that’s what it takes. “I would go much further than I think is right,” the Vermont senator said in an interview Tuesday afternoon. “Unwillingly. Unhappily. I think it’s a stupid thing to do. But we have to protect the dreamers. … I’m willing to make some painful concessions.”

Sanders said a wall is still a “totally absurd idea” and that there are better ways to secure the border with Mexico, but he also emphasized that there will be “a horrible moral stain” on the country if President Trump goes through with his order to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program next month.

-- Anti-immigration hard-liners are staking out a firm position because most of them are not actually concerned about the plight of the dreamers. They have never thought these young people, whose undocumented parents brought them to the United States as children, should be here anyway. They agitated for Trump to end the program.

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[NCTraveler]

1. Things might look a whole lot different.....

If he was even the slightest bit pragmatic in '07.

[Stuart G]

2. k and r.. nt

[lunamagica]

3. Sanders helped kill immigraton reform, and then he couldn't wait to go on the Dobbs show

to brag about it.

I don't know why we need millions of people to be coming into this country as guest workers who will work for lower wages than American workers and drive wages down even lower than they are now."

[R B Garr]

4. Thanks. I remember this hypocrisy. nt

[ismnotwasm]

5. There was a successful guest worker program

Called the Bracero program. It ended in 1964. I saw little discussion at the time of that interview how a guest worker program could be designed to be non-exploitative and protect workers. I don’t exactly see American workers lining up to do what immigrants do. I don’t exactly see American employers hiring American workers for doing what immigrants do—no Matter what their status.

[OilemFirchen]

6. Sanders has a "pragmatic side"?

Isn't that against the law?

[Blue_true]

7. Bernie is allowed to waffle.

Anyone else get called every name in the book for being pragmatic and taking the possible.

I noticed that the "Gillibrand is a soulless opportunist" crowd is silent as a gaggle of sadated church mice.