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TexasTowelie

(125,068 posts)
18. Since you asked:
Sun Sep 27, 2015, 08:54 PM
Sep 2015

Sanders’ position on immigration has been called “complicated” and he has been criticized by immigration activists for supporting the idea that immigrants coming to the U.S. are taking jobs and hurting the economy, a theory that has been proven incorrect. Both of his leading Democratic challengers, Hillary Clinton and Martin O’Malley, have recognized that new immigrants coming to the country actually boost the economy. But Sanders continues to align himself more closely with Democratic positions of the past.

“I frankly do not believe that we should be bringing in significant numbers of unskilled to workers to compete with {unemployed} kids,” Sanders said. “I want to see these kids get jobs.”

Studies have shown that immigrants actually create jobs for American workers. Researchers recently found that each new immigrant has produced about 1.2 new jobs in the U.S., most of which have gone to native-born workers. And according to the Atlantic, an influx in immigration can cause non-tradable professions — jobs like hospitality and construction that cannot be outsourced — to see a wage increase because the demand for goods and services grows with the expanding population.

But Sanders fails to see it that way, pointing on Thursday to the 36 percent unemployment rate for Hispanic young people. “You bring a lot of unskilled workers into this country, what do you think happens to that 36 percent?”

Sanders’ poor track record on immigration goes back further than just his presidential campaign. In 2007, he voted against a bipartisan immigration reform bill sponsored by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA). At the progressive Netroots Nation conference earlier this month, Sanders said the reform bill would have allowed for low wage workers to enter the country who would “be competing against kids in this country who desperately need jobs.”

But Sanders did vote for the 2013 immigration reform bill, which also included guest worker programs and contained most of the same measures as the 2007 bill that he opposed.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/07/30/3686282/bernie-sanders-immigration/

It does appear that Bernie's positions have evolved over time also.

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This is the very thing that bothers me Rosa Luxemburg Sep 2015 #1
I remember this, I wonder if her supporters do? beam me up scottie Sep 2015 #2
Is there anything wrong with her current position? 6chars Sep 2015 #3
in my view... gobears10 Sep 2015 #4
She's pandering. HooptieWagon Sep 2015 #5
She, like Bernie, has evolved on issues.. none of the candidates can throw a stone.. NOT ONE!!! uponit7771 Sep 2015 #6
what was Bernie's position? 6chars Sep 2015 #10
Since you asked: TexasTowelie Sep 2015 #18
No, no, no! Please delete this as it doesn't fit the narrative. Metric System Sep 2015 #20
! TexasTowelie Sep 2015 #21
calm down retrowire Sep 2015 #24
Most of us already know this, we're just not properly outraged according to HC supporters. beam me up scottie Sep 2015 #26
The 2013 bill included funding for jobs training CanadaexPat Sep 2015 #31
please. provide links. Javaman Sep 2015 #11
It is good to see Clinton and Sanders evolve on this issue. NCTraveler Sep 2015 #7
where has sanders evolved on this issue? gobears10 Sep 2015 #14
See post #18. nt TexasTowelie Sep 2015 #19
Hillary in 2014 pinebox Sep 2015 #8
Yeah, that's more disturbing than the OP jfern Sep 2015 #17
These children artislife Sep 2015 #28
Some people will say anything for votes I guess Cheese Sandwich Sep 2015 #9
I'm not against anyone who is simply doing what I'd do if I were born in their circumstances. Shoulders of Giants Sep 2015 #12
She explained away 3 more flip-flops this morning on Meet the Press tomm2thumbs Sep 2015 #13
Well I guess now it's easy to see why she hides from the press Cheese Sandwich Sep 2015 #15
She didn't know tar sands was dirty? Geronimoe Sep 2015 #25
maybe her hands were 'wiped' of the tar sands, like with a cloth tomm2thumbs Sep 2015 #27
Did you notice she touched her nose artislife Sep 2015 #29
'Just because your child gets across the border doesn't mean your child gets to stay'! Wow, that is sabrina 1 Sep 2015 #16
Beware anchor babies! Enthusiast Sep 2015 #22
Coming from "We came, we saw, he died" this is especially shocking RufusTFirefly Sep 2015 #23
so her plan is "screw Central Americans at both ends"? since her ever-so-bloody-BRILLIANT decision MisterP Sep 2015 #34
That's why I cannot support her. Her policies are, other than the required ones to qualif as a Dem, sabrina 1 Sep 2015 #35
the policies used to qualify as Dem are of course readily dropped and clearly just MisterP Sep 2015 #38
The reaction to that awful statement around the world was pure horror. I remember cringing sabrina 1 Sep 2015 #39
we've been okay with all this for decades, and they thought we'd be okay with some decades more MisterP Sep 2015 #40
I did not read this, I did listen to the video. Raine1967 Sep 2015 #30
Sure pinebox Sep 2015 #32
And as I said already, I worked for some of Hillary's best fundraising friends in the Hamptons sabrina 1 Sep 2015 #36
The nerve of her wanting to uphold the law! Omnith Sep 2015 #33
Children generally are not breaking the law since they mostly don't have any say in it. Bernie sabrina 1 Sep 2015 #37
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