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Related: About this forum***UPDATE (video@ 10:30am): Bernie Sanders Speech At National Latino Conference (NALEO) 6-23-16
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Scheduled for Jun 23, 2016
LIVE Stream: Bernie Sanders Speech At National Latino Conference (NALEO) in Washinton DC (6-23-16)
Bernie Sanders will speak at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) conference in Washington D.C. Thursday morning, a week after he appeared in a video saying he will seek to work with Hillary Clinton to defeat Donald Trump and ensure the Democratic platform is the most progressive in its history.
UPDATE: His address is expected to be 20 minutes long at 10:30 a.m.
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(31,362 posts)Sanders at Latino Conference Denounces Trumps Bigotry
JUNE 23, 2016
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WASHINGTON Addressing a Latino leaders conference, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday denounced the bigotry of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
I had hoped and I think most Americans had hoped that by the year 2016 we would be beyond having candidates make bigotry the cornerstone of their campaigns, Sanders told the annual convention of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials.
Sanders said Americans will not put in the White House a candidate who insults Mexicans, Muslims, African-Americans and others. Our country needs somebody who brings us together, not divides us up, the Vermont senator said of Trump, who favors building a Mexican border wall and a ban on Muslim immigration.
In calling for immigration reforms that unite families, Sanders backed executive action to protect Dreamers, the young undocumented immigrants who were brought to this country as children. He supported providing Temporary Protected Status to keep families and children from being detained or deported to Central America. He called for an end to private prisons and detention centers and for a re-evaluation of job-killing trade policies like the North American Free Trade Agreement.
In addition to his call for comprehensive immigration reform, Sanders argued for steps to boost wages, rebuild the disappearing middle class, end the rigged economy and fix a broken criminal justice system that disproportionately targets Latinos and blacks.
He also vowed to fight Republicans attempt to solve the debt crisis in Puerto Rico by closing schools, cutting pensions and abolishing the minimum wage. He called it grossly immoral to reward Wall Street speculators and punish the people of Puerto Rico.
https://berniesanders.com/sanders-latino-conference-denounces-trumps-bigotry/