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TomCADem

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8. Bernie Sanders Just Wants To Make Sure There Are Less Asian Americans
Sat Aug 24, 2019, 10:46 PM
Aug 2019

Remember when Donald Trump said he wants fewer immigrants from “shithole countries” and more from places like Norway?



Well, as Bernie Sanders stated during this segment:

“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.”


The irony is that Sanders’ stance against “a rational, non-racist immigration policy” gets a bit lost when he also thinks that it’s a bad idea to “have people from Vietnam and China and Mexico and Latin America coming in.” But, I am sure this racist message plays well in early primary states with certain less diverse demographics.
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