Sanders: Dems Won’t Desert DREAMers; One of the ‘Great Moral Crisis of Our Time’

‘These are young people who were raised in the United States, they spent almost their whole lives here, they know no other country’

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SANDERS: "Andrea, I and I think I speak for the vast majority of members of the Democratic caucus, we’re not going to desert these young people. This to my mind is one of the great moral crises of our time. As you've indicated, these are young people who were raised in the United States, they spent almost their whole lives here, they know no other country. And as a result of Trump’s precipitous action in September, when he rescinded the executive order that Obama established, these young people, if we do not get our act together will be subjected to the possibility of deportation. This is unspeakable. It is unacceptable. When rump rescinded the executive order, he said to Congress, you guys have got to fix it. We need legislation. Well, there have been some serious people, Democrats and Republicans who have been working on a variety of ideas to fix it. And we cannot keep kicking this issue down the can. Trump started this crisis, we have got to resolve it and we have got to stand with the DREAMers of this country. And by the way, that’s not Bernie Sanders, that is the vast majority of the American people in poll after poll after poll. Protect the legal status of the DREAMers, provide a path toward citizenship."

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