Can Bernie Sanders Win the Love of a Party He Scorns?

[BlueCaliDem]

187. The vast majority of Blacks, Latinos, and Asians disagree with you.

They support Hillary Clinton (I'm assuming you're referring to her as one of the two evils) by huge margins.

Blacks: 70-80% - and with Bernie Sanders supporters appearing to only see #BlackLivesMatter through the prism of White eyes, that percentage will only rise.

Latinos: 73% (according to a Univision poll) support Hillary Clinton. I suspect that percentage will rise once they discover that Bernie Sanders voted against the 2007 comprehensive immigration reform bill that had a chance of passing and signed into law under G.W. Bush and with Democratic majorities in both Senate and House. Sure, he voted FOR the 2013 immigration reform act (when Republicans regained majorities in both Senate and House), but that will make him appear disingenuous since his reason for voting against the 2007 Immigration bill was language about some parts in the bill pertaining to guest workers, and yet that language was in the 2013 comprehensive immigration bill, as well. So why the change of heart?

in 2007, Sanders was far from a reliable vote for immigration reform in the Senate.

The problem for Sanders was a guest-worker program that some immigration advocates and Democratic lawmakers begrudgingly accepted as part of a comprehensive deal — but was abhorred by labor unions and their allies on Capitol Hill.

“What concerns me are provisions in the bill that would bring low-wage workers into this country in order to depress the already declining wages of American workers,” Sanders said in May 2007. “With poverty increasing and the middle-class shrinking, we must not force American workers into even more economic distress.”

The guest-worker program proposed in the 2007 bill would bring in foreign workers for two years at a time, but force them to leave the United States for a year in between each renewal. It also offered few protections for those workers, labor advocates said.

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“Sanders was very active in trying to reduce the guest-worker parts of the ‘07 bill,” said Roy Beck, the executive director of Numbers USA, a group that calls for stricter immigration laws. “It was remarkable that Sanders went along with that in 2013.”
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/bernie-sanders-and-immigration-its-complicated-119190.html