Sanders Makes Visit to Border Wall at Friendship Park

Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders visited Friendship Park on the U.S.-Mexico border Saturday and repeated past calls for “comprehensive immigration reform” after hearing the stories of families who can only see their loved ones on weekends.

“I would hope that the Republicans in Congress understand that we have a very, very broken immigration system and that it must be reformed and that they should in fact work with Democrats to pass comprehensive immigration reform,” Sanders said during the visit prior to his rally in National City.

“If not and if I am elected president of the United States, I will use the executive powers that the president has to do that the best that I can.”



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Friendship Park / El Parque de la Amistad is an historic meeting place on the US/Mexico border, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. In the U.S. Friendship Park is located atop Monument Mesa, inside California's Border Field State Park. In Mexico, El Parque de la Amistad sits beneath the famous lighthouse ("El Faro&quot in Playas de Tijuana. For generations people of good will from both nations have gathered here to visit with family and friends "across the line.”

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Published on May 1, 2015
On Children's Day, the locked steel gate at Friendship Park in San Diego, California that separates The United States and Mexico is opened for the second since 2009.