To summarize: Senator Sanders supports you. Senator Sanders respects you.
Senator Sanders wants you to live lives that let you 'emerge from the economic shadows' ...
Bernie Sanders Tells Latinos He Backs Immigration Reform at NALEO
by Suzanne Gamboa, nbcnews.com -- Jun 19 2015
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Sanders' support for immigration reform -- an important issue to many Latinos -- has been considered too tempered. But on Friday, the last day of the National Assoociation of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials conference [NALEO], he was bullish on where he stands.
Sanders said too often undocumented workers who cook meals and care for American children are reviled and shunted to the shadows, a situation he called disgraceful. [...] "It is not acceptable to me and a growing majority of the American people that millions of people in this country are working extremely hard but they are living in the shadows, and that has got to end," Sanders said.
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In 2007, he introduced Senate legislation to allow Legal Services Corp to represent workers who have been abused by employers and to require employers to reimburse workers for transportation expenses and provide worker compensation insurance, he said to applause.
Sanders told the group he is the son of a Polish immigrant father and had worked to help Florida tomato growers fight exploitation, get fair wages and better living and working conditions.
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Senator Sanders is a son of an immigrant. So he has a very unique perspective of that means ... what struggles you have gone through.
Senator Bernie Sanders has a Message for Immigrants:
Bernie Sanders On Immigration: Read Full Speech From Presidential Candidate’s Address To NALEO
by Cedar Attanasio, latintimes.com -- Jun 23 2015
After months of silence on the topic of immigration, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont.) delivered a Latino-focused stump speech at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO.) [...]
Here are Bernie Sanders’ full remarks (prepared, not a transcript) delivered to the NALEO conference on June 19th, 2015 [in in Las Vegas, NV].
Today, I want to talk about two major issues facing our country. The need for comprehensive immigration reform, and the need for an economy which works for all of our people, and not just a handful of people on the top.
It is no great secret that across the United States undocumented workers perform a critical role in our economy. They harvest and process our food and it is no exaggeration to say that, with out them, food production in the United States would significantly decline. Undocumented workers build many of our homes, cook our meals, maintain our landscapes. We even entrust undocumented workers with that which we hold most dear -- our children.
Despite the central role they play in our economy and in our daily lives, undocumented workers are reviled by many for political gain and shunted into the shadows. Let me be clear about where I stand. It is time for this disgraceful situation to end. This country faces enormous problems and they will not be solved unless we are united. It is time to end the politics of division on this country, of politicians playing one group of people against another: white against black, male against female, straight against gay, native born against immigrant.
That is why I supported the 2013 comprehensive immigration reform legislation in the United States Senate. While a complicated piece of comprehensive legislation like this can always be improved I believed then and now that it is time to end the discussion of mass deportation or self-deportation. We cannot and we should not even be talking about sweeping up millions of men, women, and children -- many of whom have been here for years -- and throwing them out of the country. That’s wrong and that type of discussion has got to end.
Until we can pass comprehensive reform, we must be aggressive in pursuing policies that are humane and sensible and that keep families together. This includes taking measures that are currently available, including reforms through executive action.
I strongly support the Administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. DACA a good first step, but should be expanded. Deferred action should include the parents of citizens, parents of legal permanent residents, and the parents of DREAMERs. We should be pursuing policies that unite families – not tear them apart.
I continue to be a strong supporter of the DREAM Act, which would offer the opportunity of permanent residency and eventual citizenship to young people who were brought to the United States as children. It is my belief that we should recognize the young men and women who comprise the DREAMers for what they are -- American kids who deserve the right to legally be in the country they know as home.
As is often said, we are a nation of immigrants. For generations, families braved treacherous paths, often fleeing unspeakable poverty and violence, in search of better futures, for better lives for their children.
I, myself, am the son of an immigrant. My father came to this country from Poland at the age of 17 without a nickel in his pocket and without much of an education. Like immigrants before and since, he worked hard to give his family a better life here in the United States. [...]
Senator Sanders is a son of an immigrant. So he has a very unique perspective of that means ... the struggles, the apprehension, your pains of economic exploitation.
But more than that, Senator Sanders understands your DREAMS ... of finding that Better Lives, for yourselves and your kids.
Because Senator Sanders understands the American Dream -- and what it means to start from humble beginnings. Afterall, he's lived it, all of his life.
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