Tuesday, June 20, 2017

How the Democrats Lost Their Way on Immigration In the past decade, liberals have avoided inconvenient truths about the issue.

In July 2015, two months after officially announcing his candidacy for president, Sanders was interviewed by Ezra Klein, the editor in chief of Vox. Klein asked whether, in order to fight global poverty, the U.S. should consider “sharply raising the level of immigration we permit, even up to a level of open borders.” Sanders reacted with horror. “That’s a Koch brothers proposal,” he scoffed. He went on to insist that “right-wing people in this country would love … an open-border policy. Bring in all kinds of people, work for $2 or $3 an hour, that would be great for them. I don’t believe in that. I think we have to raise wages in this country.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/the-democrats-immigration-mistake/528678/

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