Elizabeth Warren's immigration proposal goes much further than a pathway to citizenship

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Like AOC, Elizabeth Warren has moved to decriminalize crossing the border without papers.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/07/12/alexandria_ocasio-cortez_on_border_this_is_a_manufactured_crisis_because_the_cruelty_is_manufactured.html

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Border: "This Is A Manufactured Crisis Because The Cruelty Is Manufactured"

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) testified as a witness at a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on migrant children and border security. The Congresswoman insisted on being sworn in even though it was not necessary, as Chairman Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) noted.

Ocasio-Cortez likened the Trump administration's policy of "remain in Mexico" to human trafficking because it puts migrants in the "crosshairs" of human traffickers. AOC also said there is no reason to arrest "innocent" illegal immigrants and treat them differently than common criminals. The Congresswoman broke down while lamenting how families are being held in facilities where American flags hang.

Elizabeth Warren has articulated a policy that represents a sharp break from Trump's current policies that are predicated on scapegoating and inspiring hate of immigrants.

https://www.vox.com/2019/7/12/20690200/elizabeth-warren-immigration-proposal-2020

Presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) calls for decriminalizing crossing the border without papers, reducing immigration detention, and increasing funding for aid to Central America in her campaign’s newly unveiled comprehensive immigration platform.

At a League of United Latin American Citizens event in Milwaukee, where 2020 hopefuls Julián Castro and Sen. Bernie Sanders were also in attendance, Warren released a proposal that unsurprisingly serves as a clear rebuke of President Trump’s immigration agenda.

Five 2020 Democratic candidates — Warren, Castro, Beto O’Rourke, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, and Sen. Cory Booker — have now put out immigration proposals. All of them call for reversals of Trump’s most controversial immigration policies, and Warren’s is no exception: As the administration teases plans for mass immigration raids in the coming days, her plan proposes protecting schools, medical facilities, and courthouses from immigration enforcement and ending programs that allow local law enforcement to be deputized as federal immigration officers.

Amid reports of unsafe and unsanitary conditions in immigration detention centers along the southern border, Warren’s plan seeks to pare back detention overall and eliminate private detention facilities.