Earlier today a DU regular started a thread about Bernie Sanders and "Open Borders".

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7. Well, very recent statements made by Sanders about Chinese, Vietnamese, Mexican and South American

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immigrants indicate that he believes those particular countries produce impoverished, uneducated immigrants, and an abundance of them wouldn't be plausible.

“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. On the other hand, I think the strength of this nation is the diversity and the new ideas from immigrants from all walks of life have given this country. So you need a rational, non-racist immigration policy which welcomes people in from all over the world to improve our economy, but clearly you cannot have open borders.”

Open borders defenses aside, the bigger point is not Sanders’ views on open borders, its’ more as to how he views immigrants from places like Mexico, Vietnam, China and Latin America.

When someone shows you who they are, be thankful. This is a rep elected from a 98% white state, who has not had to handle the issues of a diverse population, nor speak to a diverse population in a sensitive way.

Thanks for the opportunity to bring Bernie's current views into the discussion.