Bernie Sanders Rips Trump For Attacks On Immigrants
From the Sanders campaign, Bernie had some stern words for Donald Trump during a meeting with the Muscatine County Boxing Club in Iowa this Friday: Sanders Calls for Immigration Reform, Rips Trump Attacks on Immigrants:
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders told a Latino roundtable meeting here on Friday that “mean and degrading” remarks about immigrants by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump are “unacceptable.”
Sanders also faulted the Republican-controlled House of Representatives for refusing to consider a Senate-passed immigration reform bill passed by a bipartisan majority of 68-32 in 2013. “It is incomprehensible that the U.S. House has not yet taken up the comprehensive immigration reform bill passed by the Senate with my support,” Sanders said. “We need legislation which takes 11 million undocumented people living in the United States out of the shadows and puts them on a path to citizenship.”
Turning to Trump’s attacks on immigrants, Sanders said that “honest people can disagree on immigration reform but candidates running for president should not stoop to racism and demagoguery to win votes.”