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Related: About this forumSanders would end deportations of undocumented immigrants who’ve lived in the U.S. for five years
Bernie Sanders would end deportations of undocumented immigrants whove lived in the U.S. for five years
By Casey Tolan - November 9, 2015 3:29 p.m.
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said today he would not deport undocumented immigrants who have lived in the United States at least five years.
We have 11 million people today who are living in fear, he said in a speech to a conference of immigration activists in Las Vegas. We need to fight as hard as we can to end that fear.
Sanders said he wanted to pass the strongest comprehensive immigration reform possible in the first 100 days of his administration. But if Congress doesnt act, he said he would expand President Barack Obamas executive actions to defer deportations.
Essentially, Sanders wants to redo the failed 2013 Senate immigration reform bill, which was not voted on by the House of Representatives, as an executive action. He said he would use executive action to provide broad administrative relief to the parents of citizens, the parents of legal permanent residents, the parents of DREAMers, other family members and the rest of the immigrant population that would have been legalized if the House of Representatives did their job.
A campaign statement added that he would allow all undocumented people who have been in the United States for at least five years to stay here without fear of being deported, through executive actions and prosecutorial discretion. That echoes a similar proposal by his presidential rival Martin OMalley.
President Obamas executive action expanding deportation relief is currently held up in the courts.
Sanders also continued his calls to close private immigrant detention centers, calling for an end to the immigrant detention-deportation machine and the expansion of border militarization.
Full article:
http://fusion.net/story/229696/bernie-sanders-end-deportations-undocumented-immigrants-five-years/
By Casey Tolan - November 9, 2015 3:29 p.m.
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said today he would not deport undocumented immigrants who have lived in the United States at least five years.
We have 11 million people today who are living in fear, he said in a speech to a conference of immigration activists in Las Vegas. We need to fight as hard as we can to end that fear.
Sanders said he wanted to pass the strongest comprehensive immigration reform possible in the first 100 days of his administration. But if Congress doesnt act, he said he would expand President Barack Obamas executive actions to defer deportations.
Essentially, Sanders wants to redo the failed 2013 Senate immigration reform bill, which was not voted on by the House of Representatives, as an executive action. He said he would use executive action to provide broad administrative relief to the parents of citizens, the parents of legal permanent residents, the parents of DREAMers, other family members and the rest of the immigrant population that would have been legalized if the House of Representatives did their job.
A campaign statement added that he would allow all undocumented people who have been in the United States for at least five years to stay here without fear of being deported, through executive actions and prosecutorial discretion. That echoes a similar proposal by his presidential rival Martin OMalley.
President Obamas executive action expanding deportation relief is currently held up in the courts.
Sanders also continued his calls to close private immigrant detention centers, calling for an end to the immigrant detention-deportation machine and the expansion of border militarization.
Full article:
http://fusion.net/story/229696/bernie-sanders-end-deportations-undocumented-immigrants-five-years/
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Sanders would end deportations of undocumented immigrants who’ve lived in the U.S. for five years (Original Post)
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Nov 2015
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cosmicone
(11,014 posts)1. Focus group results ... just in for the Nevada primary
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Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)2. Excellent!
This will play great. Our local campaign is going to be targeting areas of the city I which there are mostly Spanish-speakers. This will be a great talking point for us!