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Bernie Sanders to Las Vegas crowd: Immigration plan will align with nation's values
By Ricardo Torres-Cortez
Thursday, May 30, 2019 | 9:13 p.m
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If he was to sit in the Oval Office come January 2021, Sen. Bernie Sanders would work to secure the U.S.-Mexico border while also overhauling the immigration system in a humane manner. That’s what the Democratic nominee told an enthusiastic crowd of about 900 supporters in Las Vegas Thursday during a campaign stop at Roy Martin Middle School Thursday.
The Vermont senator said his campaign will roll out a “comprehensive immigration reform” plan in the coming weeks that will be “based on a principle of creating a humane policy that keeps families together and aligns with our values and our history as a nation.”
As it stands, Sanders said, the 1.8 million so-called Dreamers would “immediately” gain permanent legal status, and the rest of the estimated 11 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally would be able to “come out of the shadow,” he said. There would also be a “path to citizenship.”
Sanders said he would end family separations at the southern border that has seen record-breaking numbers of illegal crossings in the past months. “America must never be a nation in which babies are snatched from the arms of their mothers,” he said.
Those caught crossing the border illegally would not face criminal violations, but civil ones, Sanders said. “Most of the people coming to this country are seeking asylum from violence … from desperate poverty.”
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