Bernie Sanders clarifies position on undocumented immigrants with Anderson Cooper

[Melon]

I can’t decide if he misspoke somewhat or has changed on his positioning.


Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), in an interview with CNN host Anderson Cooper, acknowledged that most people would support deporting an undocumented immigrant.

“Look, this is where I think the American people are at. If you are a drug dealer, if you are somebody in this country undocumented or has committed a crime, I think most people think, Hey, have a nice day. You're out of here. And I support that. But the truth is that the vast majority of the people who are being picked up, put on -- put in vans, sent to detention centers, and God knows what else, these are people who do not have criminal records in the United States of America.”

[SickOfTheOnePct]

1. I don't think it's out of the mainstream...

...to believe that an undocumented immigrant who has committed a crime should be deported after they've served their sentence.

[Melon]

2. " , if you are somebody in this country undocumented or ...."

He said that he supports removing undocumented immigrants….or….criminals.

[Igel]

3. Yeah, he did.

But in context it sounds like a speech error he caught and immediately conducted a bit of repair on.

That's what we do. You want to really annoy a speaker, give him/her a close transcription. Most of us come off, unless we're reading from a script or have things memorized to the point it's recitation while you're thinking about other things, as blithering idiots.

[Melon]

4. Agreed

[Greg_In_SF]

5. Well, if he misspoke

then he did not, in fact, clarify his position.

[JI7]

6. Sanders has a history of being anti immigrant

and seeing them as taking jobs from certain Americans.

He has softened his views (at least in public) because of certain changes in the country.