Bernie Says Immigration Threatens the Social Safety Net. Research Shows Otherwise

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26. You don't repeat RW talking points...

Just like you don't say we want to keep "Partial Birth Abortions" legal, you don't say that you want to "keep bad hombres from coming into the country," and you don't say that "open borders" is anything but a RW talking point that is designed to misrepresent Democratic policy.

And saying that most immigrants are poor, and that all these impoverished immigrants would swarm here and weaken the social safety net if given the chance is NOT SUPPORTED BY DATA, no matter if it's the GOP or Bernie repeating it. Did you bother to read the article in the OP? Because it appears that you missed that part of the debunked assumption that Sanders is reciting.

This is how you address any mention of "open borders:"

2020 candidate Julián Castro joins MTP Daily to discuss his plan for the ongoing crisis at the southern border and notes that the rhetoric of Democrats being for “open borders” is a talking point from the right.

You say, "No one is talking about open borders, that's a mischaracterization of Democratic policy. We have the resources to accept those who are refugees, and to give everyone who requests asylum a hearing. We need to put more resources into the causes of people fleeing, which is the opposite of what Trump is doing."

This isn't the first time he's made some tone deaf

And Bernie sure didn't help himself on the Daily Show with this statement:

“Nobody, I mean not many people believe in open borders. If you simply opened the borders, you’d have people from Vietnam and China and Mexico and Latin America coming in. And no one thinks that is a plausible approach."

Who is he talking about that "believes in open borders?" I can guess, though.

Talk about tone deaf, listing countries with majority non-white populations as being the burdensome immigrants.

But as the saying goes, "When someone shows you who they are, believe them."