Does Bernie AGREE With Trump On Illegal Immigration? Sanders Says No to ‘Open Borders’

While most 2020 Democrat White House hopefuls are doing everything they can to give illegal immigrants everything they can, Bernie Sanders is saying something closer to what Donald Trump has: That the U.S. simply can’t have open borders, as so many on the Left seem to insist on.

At a town hall in Oskaloosa, Iowa, over the weekend, an attendee called Sanders an “open borders advocate.”

“I’m afraid you may be getting your information wrong,” Sanders said. “That’s not my view.”

Breitbart reports:

“What we need is comprehensive immigration reform,” Sanders said. “If you open the borders, my God, there’s a lot of poverty in this world, and you’re going to have people from all over the world.”

“And I don’t think that’s something that we can do at this point,” said Sanders, who does support free college tuition and universal health care.

“Can’t do it,” Sanders said. “So that is not my position.”

Breitbart notes, “There is no information about Sanders’ position on immigration on his berniesanders.com website, but the feelthebern.org website supporting the candidate said:

Bernie Sanders has said that we are a “nation of immigrants. That is, in fact, the strength of America.” Given this view, he believes the United States must create an immigration system that invites greater innovation, diversity, and economic opportunity for both American-born citizens and the people who want to make this land their home. Bernie supports immigration reform that will address the legal status of the 11 million undocumented people in our country, protect American jobs by way of visa reform, secure the border, and protect undocumented workers from labor exploitation.

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“The website states that Sanders supports a pathway to citizenship for all people who are in the United States illegally, the Dream Act, ‘Visa reform’ and border security without building a fence,” Breitbart notes.

While these are all positions that are the opposite of President Trump, the mere fact that Sanders said the U.S. can’t have open borders makes him out of step with so many in his party who basically agree that there should be no restrictions on who enters America, regardless of their legal status.

Expect Sanders to “feel the Bern” on this subject as the 2020 Democratic primaries heat up.

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