Bernie Sanders: Has Detailed Humane Immigration Policy & Demands End to Deportations:

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A Fair and Humane Immigration Policy - Bernie Sanders
https://berniesanders.com/issues/a-fair-and-humane-immigration-policy/

In 2013, Senator Sanders voted for the comprehensive immigration reform bill that would ... The growth of the immigrant detention/deportation machine and the ...
Bernie Sanders Calls for Broader End to Deportations | TIME
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Jun 19, 2015 - Democratic White House hopeful Bernie Sanders on Friday called for ending deportations for not just the children who were brought to the ...
Bernie Sanders Demands President Obama End 'Inhumane ...
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Jan 7, 2016 - "I urge you to immediately end these raids and not deport families back ... Vermont Senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders wrote to ...
Bernie Sanders Calls For an End to Mass Deportation Raids ...
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Jan 7, 2016 - Sanders has told the Obama administration, "I urge you to ... Bernie Sanders Calls For an End to Mass Deportation Raids of Central American ...

But Hillary says she will continue Obama's Policies:

Obama has facilitated the deportation of 400,000 immigrants each year, a group that is disproportionately male and Latino. This is bad public policy.

First, contrary to what anti-immigrant groups would have you believe, the country is spending more today than it ever has ever on immigration enforcement, a wasteful and terrible use of taxpayer dollars. In fiscal year 2016, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has a budget of $64.9 billion, only six percent of which goes to the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, the component of DHS devoted to customer service and processing immigrants' applications to adjust status.

In fact, the DHS receives more funding than any other federal criminal law enforcement agency. While the Obama policy purports to be targeting only those convicted of a crime with standing deportation orders, as outlined under his new PEP-Comm (Priority Enforcement Program) set of priorities, the reality is that the program incentivizes racist policing and creates a dragnet even for individuals who have never been convicted of a crime.

Second, these policies are destructive to families - 16.6 million individuals live in mixed status families (with at least one unauthorized individual), and middle-of-the-night roundups are causing lasting traumas, especially to children - a fact recognized even by the Department of Justice. Removing primary breadwinners and caregivers creates psychological and economic damage to families. For those deported parents who are left with the choice to either leave behind their native-born and US citizen children, or take them to a country where they often don't know the language and face bureaucratic barriers to full integration and well-being, there can be devastating consequences.


Lastly, Americans should be wary of any policy that expulses individuals without due process. Contrary to popular belief, immigration law is a civil matter. Yet, the number of immigrants in detention centers went from 6,785 in 1995 to 34,000 in 2013. Many of these detention centers are privately run, house women and children, and routinely deny detainees access to counsel. In the recent spate of removals, judges have already halted the deportation of 20 individuals last month who had not been able to exhaust their legal options in the hasty rush to detain and deport.....

http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/34781-immigrant-rights-affect-us-all

http://fusion.net/story/130677/hillary-clinton-immigration-citizenship-las-vegas-dreamers-event/

More recently, during the 2014 midterm-election campaign, Clinton continually wavered when asked if she supported Obama’s executive actions to shield as many as 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation.

When Andiola’s fellow co-director at the DREAM Action Coalition confronted Clinton at a rope line in Iowa last fall about her support for the actions, she said only that the solution was to “elect more Democrats.” .......

Supporting a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, while distinguishing herself from Republican candidates on the issue, “doesn’t really change much,” Andiola said. “It’s the same rhetoric and the same talking points we’ve been hearing for years.”

“We expect her to be bold. We expect her to be our ally, and to be clear on what she is going to do,” said Jorge-Mario Cabrera, the communications director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles. “We expect her to not be coy about her positions. ‘This is what I plan to do and how I’m going to do it better than anyone else.’”

Sharry said a way for Clinton to “make a splash” would be to publicly recognize the complicated electoral politics and lay out what she’d do to support the 5 or 6 million undocumented immigrants who have not been potentially covered by Obama’s executive actions.

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1. I keep reading

that he doesn't have detailed plans, but then, every time I turn around, there's another detailed plan for his agenda.

My, oh my, how could there be such confusion?

Supports families, insists on due process...that's a plan I can get behind.