Pete Buttigieg unveils his immigration agenda, pledging 'path to citizenship'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Democratic presidential contender Pete Buttigieg unveiled his immigration plan on Sunday, including a path to citizenship for the country's 11 million undocumented immigrants.

"Our policies should acknowledge that immigrants are not outsiders," Buttigieg wrote in the plan.

The mayor of South Bend, Ind., released the plan as the Democratic presidential primary heats up. On Thursday, Buttigieg came under fire from all sides during the sixth debate of the race, hosted in Los Angeles.

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Buttigieg said at the debate that families separated by the Trump administration's immigration policies should have a "fast track to citizenship because what the United States did under this president to them was wrong."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/pete-buttigieg-unveils-his-immigration-agenda-pledging-path-to-citizenship/ar-BBYf7t4?li=BBnb7Kz

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. His plan talks about a whole lot more than fast tracks to citizenship.

It looks good to me. Very thorough and it reverses many of the atrocious measures that tRump put in place.

[TomCADem]

2. In Contrast, Bernie Complains About Immigrants from China, Mexico and Latin America

Bernie Sanders has been simultaneously portraying himself as a champion of immigration rights even as his anti-immigration views have earned him the admiration of hardline opponents of immigration such as Steve King:

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Bernie Sanders gets a free pass on anti-immigration views, because people view him as progressive. Yet, he frequently used right wing talking points such as characterizing his opponents immigration proposals as "open borders," and complaining about more immigrants from Asia or Mexico:

https://www.latinorebels.com/2019/04/15/sandersimmigrants/

Why Are More People Not Outraged About How Bernie Sanders Frames His Views on Immigrants?

Are people really taking Bernie Sanders to task about what he told Trevor Noah last week during The Daily Show’s Between the Scenes digital segment?

As Sanders stated (bold and italics are our own emphasis):

“Nobody, I mean not many people believe in open borders. If you simply opened the borders, you’d have people from Vietnam and China and Mexico and Latin America coming in. And no one thinks that is a plausible approach. On the other hand, I think the strength of this nation is the diversity and the new ideas from immigrants from all walks of life have given this country. So you need a rational, non-racist immigration policy which welcomes people in from all over the world to improve our economy, but clearly you cannot have open borders.”

Ironically enough, Sanders’ stance against “a rational, non-racist immigration policy” gets a bit lost when he also thinks that it’s a bad idea to “have people from Vietnam and China and Mexico and Latin America coming in.”