Bernie Sanders promises ‘strong border’ vowing free tuition, free health care
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) wants to give illegal aliens free health care and free college tuition, so when asked about those policies possibly encouraging more illegal migration into America.
“Why won’t this drive even more people to come to the U.S. illegally?” Sanders was asked at Tuesday’s CNN debate in Detroit.
“Because we’ll have strong border protections,” Sanders said — without explaining what that means. “But the main point I want to make,” he continued, “is that what Trump is doing through his racism and his xenophobia, is demonizing a group of people. And as president, I will end that demonization.
“If a mother and a child walk thousands of miles on a dangerous path, in my view, they are not criminals. They are people fleeing violence. And I think the main thing that we’ve got to do — among many others, and Beto made this point — we’ve got to ask ourselves, “Why are people walking 2,000 miles to a strange country where they don’t know the language?”
“So what we will do, the first week we are in the White House, is bring the entire hemisphere together to talk about how we rebuild Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador so people do not have to flee their own countries,” Sanders said.
