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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe NYT Praises Bernie Sanders’ Immigration Plan: ‘Reality-Based, Moderate, Practical and Hopeful’
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/nyt_praises_bernie_sanders_immigration_plan_reality-based_20151126
via truthdig:
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders immigration plan starts with the right premise: that immigrants should be welcomed and assimilated, not criminalized and exploited, The New York Times editorial board declares. His proposals seek to uphold American values, bolster the rule of law, bolster the economy and protect and honor families.
While Hillary Clinton, his top contender for the Democratic nomination, has delivered a similar list of worthy proposals, the editors add, she offers fewer specifics and less breadth than Sanders.
They continue:
Since the immigration reform bill was killed, in 2013, the party that killed it the Republicans has dragged the immigration debate to grotesque depths that go well beyond the usual nativist bigotry. Republican presidential candidates are arguing, in all seriousness, about sealing the border with fantastical 2,000-mile fences and weaponized drones; merging state, local and federal authorities and private prisons into one all-seeing immigration police state; forcibly registering American Muslims; mass-deporting 11 million Mexicans and others in a 21st century Trail of Tears; and turning away thousands of refugees fleeing war and terrorism in the Middle East. (...)
Recognizing Congresss chronic inaction on immigration, Mr. Sanders promises to use executive authority well beyond what President Obama has done. He would protect young immigrants and their parents from deportation, and give broad administrative relief to young immigrants, to the parents of citizens and legal permanent residents and to others who would have been allowed to stay under the 2013 Senate bill. This affirms the humane and sensible principle behind that legislation that 11 million unauthorized immigrants should stay and contribute, not be isolated and expelled.
The Sanders plan tackles an ugly truth that racial profiling and the nations vast deportation and detention machinery have made suspected criminals of millions of people who dont fit the definition. His promise to decouple federal immigration enforcement from local policing would be a sharp break from dragnet policies that expanded under President Obama. Mr. Sanders rightly defends sanctuary city policies that protect public safety by building trust between immigrant communities and local law enforcement.
Mr. Sanderss promise to increase immigrants access to the justice system, with more funding for courts and lawyers, stands in sharp contrast to the Republican view of unauthorized immigrants as a shadow society of criminals who havent been deported yet. Mr. Sanders instead sees them as parents, breadwinners, taxpayers, bulwarks of the economy and of the communities they live in, aspiring Americans trapped by unjust laws and oppressive policing.
Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.
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The NYT Praises Bernie Sanders’ Immigration Plan: ‘Reality-Based, Moderate, Practical and Hopeful’ (Original Post)
marmar
Nov 2015
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Zorra
(27,670 posts)1. "Hey hey, ho, ho, Sheriff Joe has got to go" nt
askew
(1,464 posts)2. It's too bad that the NYT didn't acknowledge that Sanders ripped off part of O'Malley's immigration
plan. And that O'Malley's entire plan is still better than Sanders and that, unlike Sanders, O'Malley's record matches his plan. Sanders' is just all talk on immigration and no action.