Activists Demand a Migrant Justice Platform as Democratic Candidates Discuss Immigration in Debate

Protesters for immigrant rights demonstrated outside the Democratic debate Thursday in Los Angeles, displaying a banner that read “Migrant Justice on Day One” and demanding a moratorium on deportations and immigrant worker protections. We look at how the candidates responded, with Erika Andiola, chief advocacy officer for RAICES, the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services. “I’m really happy that immigration came up this time around,” she notes. “In the past few debates, the issue didn’t even come up.”

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[endlessadventure]

It's shocking how Sanders always answers questions with such clear concrete actions and Biden always speaks in platitudes. I sure hope everyone notices that. I doubt it.

[SeaJay_Oceans]

USA needs a new statue of FREEDOM - Like when we had a statue of Liberty - and make a HUGE Immigration center and free housing city as a welcoming in point for the millions and millions of people coming up from the south into USA.

Send them back to whence they came, plain and simple.

[larrycoleman]

We are waiting for the Supreme Court decisions. "We b Waitn' on Dem, make Dem wait"

[letaureau]

Let them all in like
Black friday at the mall LOL Then Orange Clown takes another billion, walls for Mari Lagos Fla.

[BoydGilbreath]

Only Bernie had a good answer. Vote for Bernie, and contribute any amount. I always give $3.00 rarely more, almost every day. Bernie is the only one on that stage who has not been purchased. No Democrats, No Republicans, just paid flunkies of the rich and big business.