…What’s wrong with his position, exactly?
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sudoer777@lemmy.ml 14 hours agoSanders joined ABC News’s “This Week,” where host Jonathan Karl asked if there was anything Trump has done right.
“I think cracking down on fentanyl, making sure our borders are stronger,” Sanders replied. “Look, nobody thinks illegal immigration is appropriate, and I happen to think we need comprehensive immigration reform, but I don’t think it’s appropriate for people to be coming across the border illegally.”
While the senator agreed with Trump on strengthening the country’s borders to protect citizens, he disagreed with the president’s mass deportation plan.
“He wants to deport 20 million people who are in this country who are undocumented,” Sanders said. “Well, you do that, you destroy the entire country.”
“Because I got news for you, Trump’s billionaire friends are not going to pick the crops in California that feed us. They’re not going to work in meatpacking houses,” he continued. “That’s what undocumented people are doing.”
Given that this is as far left as US politicians get, I’d say unlikely.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 22 minutes ago
You removed, or stupid?
RichardNixos@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
“cracking down on fentanyl”
The War on Drugs is well-documented to be a racist pretext for mass incarceration and violation of 4th Amendment rights, etc., (see The New Jim Crow for example), so Sanders is either a useful idiot or complicit.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I mean, yeah, if you’re punishing people for consuming the drugs directly, 100%. However, Trump’s focus has been more on preventing fentanyl from entering the country.
Unfortunately, he’s still an idiot since our own pharmaceutical companies are the primary culprit.
athatet@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
Because people are not ‘illegal’ for crossing an imaginary line on a map.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Where did he call anyone ‘illegal’?
Maeve@kbin.earth 6 hours ago
"We need those slaves to be working in conditions so abysmal, even our own disposables won't work them!"
Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 20 minutes ago
Deplorables*