Bernie Sanders Blasts Deportation Raids in Impassioned Letter to Obama

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) penned a forceful letter to President Barack Obama on Thursday assailing the Department of Homeland Security's large-scale deportation raids targeting Central American immigrants, writing that the raids would condemn many migrants to a "death sentence" and calling on Obama to exercise his executive authority to protect vulnerable migrants.

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"As a country, we have a fundamental responsibility to keep families together and welcome those seeking refuge from extreme violence and persecution," Sanders wrote the president. He added that the weekend raids flew in the face of Obama's "directive to 'more humanely' enforce our nation's immigration laws," referring to Obama's 2014 executive action extending deportation reprieves to up to 5 million undocumented immigrants.

The same relief should be extended to migrants targeted by the DHS raids, Sanders said. He decried barriers to effective legal counsel for migrants, urging the administration to guarantee them adequate representation as they fight deportations.

http://mic.com/articles/132039/bernie-sanders-blasts-deportation-raids-in-impassioned-letter-to-obama?utm_source=policymicTWTR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social#.ZMllu8rpo

You can read the entire letter here:

http://www.sanders.senate.gov/download/deportation-raids-letter?inline=file

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1. K & R!

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3. k&r

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4. On this note I think the Obama admin is missing the boat, America has room to spare ... don't unders

... understand the fever here.

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7. A little late to the party Bernie

MOM took care of this ages ago.

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