Bernie Sanders: What he thinks about a completely open border.

[Skwmom]

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/07/31/bernie_sanders_against_open_borders_that_would_substantially_lower_wages_in_this_country.html

Corporations want a completely open border so they can keep bringing in a cheap supply of labor.

[HappyPlace]

1. Correct. So do Third Way types, but they hide behind a false sense of equity....

The RW and TW conspired long ago to keep the stream of cheap labor flowing.

TW do this under the cover story that it's a human rights issue, but then never go after employers the way they should to make sure humane working conditions are met.

I call bullshit on them all.

Go Bernie!

[Skwmom]

3. You are right. Unlike Sanders, the 3rd way types want completely open borders. n/t

[Mnpaul]

4. They want it to be easy to come here

not so easy to be here legally so they don't have to pay minimum wage. Both groups are responsible for them coming here. Nafta devastated the agriculture sector in Mexico.

[mopinko]

8. bill clinton instituted a very good system

to check ss numbers of job applicants. bush shut it down.

[HappyPlace]

10. No surprises there.

Bush was very good at one thing: having bad ideas and undoing good ones.

[cali]

2. is anyone running for completely open borders?

[Puzzledtraveller]

5. He is right on this.

[Evergreen Emerald]

6. I have not heard of one person who wants a completely open border

I am not certain what that would look like? Close up the border patrol? Shut down the border entry stations? Who is advocating for a "completely" open border? And what is it?

[dreamnightwind]

7. Yes, I was very happy to hear Bernie make the point

that the border issue has been the way it is because corporations want the cheap exploitable labor.

We should be in favor of legal, regulated immigration, with quotas or criteria of some sort. As far as I know that's how other nations do it, and it's still the law here, but the lawless corporations who run our government have been "insourcing" on the sly.

If we want more immigrants, we should raise the quota, or make official immigration easier. Instead, we have millions of undocumented people living here, in some weird legal limbo where they can't make any trouble (such as protest their wages or lack of rights and benefits) without fear of discovery and deportation.

If the corporations had their way, there would be a small ownership class, and the rest of us would lack full status as citizens, we would be guest workers who could be removed at their whims.

[Warren DeMontague]

9. The club for growth crowd loves the status quo- cheap labor, off the books.

Sanders is right. We need to provide a path to citizenship for those here but also control immigration.