Sen. Bernie Sanders: ending DACA "one of the ugliest and cruelest decisions ever made"

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47. Here's what SEIU Eliseo Medina said said about the importance of passing the legislation at the time

Senator Sanders claims that he has consistently been on the right side of immigration reform, but the truth is, he opposed Senator Ted Kennedy’s 2007 immigration reform bill. Six times.

AP: “In 2007, [Sanders] cast six ballots to stop comprehensive immigration reform legislation sponsored by Arizona Sen. John McCain and the late Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy from advancing to a vote.”
Sanders to Lou Dobbs in 2007: “I don't know why we need millions of people to be coming into this country as guest workers who will work for lower wages than American workers and drive wages down even lower than they are now.”

Here’s what SEIU’s Eliseo Medina said about the importance of passing the legislation at the time:

“The price of failure will be hundreds of more people dying in the desert. The price of failure will be more workplace raids and families separated as breadwinners are arrested and deported. The price of failure will be more public anger at the broken immigration system. More states and cities will pass punitive laws that target immigrants.”

https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/factchecks/2016/03/09/sanders-voted-against-ted-kennedys-comprehensive-immigration-reform-bill/