Bernie Sanders on the Border: 'We Don’t Need a Wall'

[Judi Lynn]

Bernie Sanders on the Border: 'We Don’t Need a Wall'

By MaryAlice Parks
·Mar 19, 2016, 6:04 PM ET

Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders called the controversy over immigration "trumped up" today during a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border near Nogales, Arizona, just days before the primary in this southwest state.

"The so-called immigration problem we face today at this particular moment, is a trumped up and exaggerated problem," he said during a hillside press conference with the expansive, brown border fence stretching off into the distance behind him. His microphone was run off of a generator.

Sanders went on to quote numbers from the Pew research center that indicate more people have been going from the United State to Mexico, rather than the other way around.

"We don’t need a wall and we don't need barbwire," He said. "We need to fix our broken criminal justice system. First and foremost, it goes without saying that we need comprehensive immigration reform, we need to take 11 million undocumented people out of the shadows, out of fear, and we need to provide them with legal protection, and we need to provide them with a path toward citizenship."

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[Uncle Joe]

1. It's nothing but an asinine waste of money and a burr under the saddle of good relations

between the U.S. and Mexico.


Thanks for the thread, Judi Lynn.

[Vattel]

2. And yet Clinton even in this campaign brags about her votes for a wall.

[joshcryer]

3. Isn't it a fence wall?

[Vattel]

4. sorry, what?

[joshcryer]

5. She says they have a wall here or there.

We have a wall here or there and we have fences and she wants to finish up the fences or something like that.

[Vattel]

7. I think some of the fences need to be removed.

Many die because they need to avoid the fences.

[joshcryer]

9. Yeah, they funnel people to the most inhospitable routes.

[NCTraveler]

6. I know this isn't a supported opinion here but I will say it anyway.

I think we can get a pathway to citizenship if we give in on the wall. I'm ok with that and will call it a federal jobs program. If we aren't going to have water and shade stations every half mile across the border the wall is of no significance to me.

[riderinthestorm]

8. K&R nt

[SMC22307]

10. K&R

[pampango]

11. "... rightly appalled by the divisive bigoted and xenophobic comments of people like Donald Trump,"

"I would hope that all of us are rightly appalled by the divisive bigoted and xenophobic comments of people like Donald Trump," he said motioning to the border. "Trump’s labeling of Mexicans as rapists and criminals repulses all Americans of good will. Mexico is our neighbor, which we have extremely important relations with. To insult an entire nation is not befitting of anybody, let alone a candidate for president of the United States."

Sanders' primary opponent, Hillary Clinton, has not yet made a stop at the border during this campaign. When asked if he was trying to distinguish himself from her by coming to this site, the senator replied, "Well, I just wanted to make it very clear that I think we have a crisis in this country with 11 million undocumented people, that so many people, and I have met a lot of them, are living in fear and that they are being exploited."

Well said, Bernie.