Far-left Senator Bernie Sanders said he would support Joe Biden in taking executive action on the situation at the southern border.
In an interview with CBS, Sanders made the logical point that tens of thousands of people cannot be allowed into the country illegally, which is currently happening with the support of the Biden regime:
We have a disaster at the border, there's been an attempt to pass something, and there's a lot of politics going on. Republicans want to be more extreme than Democrats. The bottom line is that you can't have tens and tens of thousands of people trying to illegally enter our country every week.
But what you can do is develop a long-term immigration policy, which stipulates, among other things, that children born in this country become citizens, and that we have a rational, rational policy on immigration, which we don't. We have it now. It will require bipartisan cooperation.
When the interviewee asked if he would support an executive order to ease the situation, Sanders said he would.
However, he later blamed so-called climate change, claiming that illegal immigrants are moving to America because their crops are failing rather than because of the amazing incentives offered by the Democratic establishment:
See, my father came to this country from Poland at the age of 17 without a nickel in his pocket. We are primarily a nation of immigrants. We will have to find a humane solution to what is actually a very difficult problem.
We must also realize that as we try to develop a rational immigration policy, do you know why people are fleeing? They are fleeing Latin America and elsewhere because climate change makes it impossible for them to grow their crops, because of drug violence in their communities where children are being killed. So, it's a complicated issue. We need a humanitarian response to this.
Sanders is known for his distinguished views on immigration. Although he supports granting citizenship to tens of millions of illegal immigrants, he once denounced open borders as a policy created by the Koch brothers to import cheap labor and drive down wages.
“Open borders? No, that's a proposal from the Koch brothers,” he said in 2015. “I think as a matter of moral responsibility, we should be working with the rest of the industrialized world to address the problems of international poverty, but you're not doing that. And that's by making people in this country more Poorer.”
