Time
By Sam Frizell
November 9, 2015
"Nothing significant is going to happen unless we build a movement"
Vermont
Senator Bernie Sanders announced on Monday that as president he would
go further than President Barack Obama’s executive actions on
immigration, providing immunity
from deportation to millions of undocumented people in the United
States.
“We
cannot and we should not sweep up millions of men, women and children,
many of whom have been in the United States for years, and throw them
out of the country,” Sanders
told a national immigration reform summit meeting in Las Vegas.
Sanders,
who is seeking the Democratic nomination for president, said he would
use presidential powers to allow all undocumented people who have been
in the United States
for at least five years to stay in the country without any fear of
deportation.
He added that he would not wait for Congress to act to expand Obama’s DACA, or the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
Former
secretary of state Hillary Clinton has also said in the first weeks of
her campaign that she would go beyond President’s Obama’s plan and do
“everything possible
under the law” to protect illegal immigrants from deportation. More
than 438,000 were deported from the United States in 2013 alone.
Clinton enjoys widespread support among Latinos, while Sanders has seen much less recognition from the group.
Sanders
said he understands the challenge of overcoming gridlock in Congress,
pointing to the failure of the 2013 bipartisan Senate bill to pass the
House of Representatives.
“Nothing significant is going to happen unless we build a movement,” he said on Monday, echoing his stump speech.
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