{"id":22606,"date":"2020-03-04T11:23:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T16:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=22606"},"modified":"2020-03-04T11:23:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T16:23:27","slug":"democratic-presidential-open-borders-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/03\/04\/democratic-presidential-open-borders-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"United We Dream Action Endorses Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ahead of Super Tuesday, United We Dream Action endorsed both Bernie Sanders and <\/em>Elizabeth Warren for president. In a press release<\/a>, the activist group notes that \u201cUWDA is proud to endorse Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and a progressive vision that will get our community closer to liberation.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

United We Dream bills itself as the \u201clargest immigrant youth-led community in the country.\u201d Activists founded the organization in 2008 as a way to petition for greater benefits for illegal aliens. ThinkProgress<\/a> notes that UWD\u2019s founder Cristina Jimenez Moreta was influential in lobbying the Obama administration to create the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. UWD continues to advocate for the interests of illegal aliens through UWD Action, a grassroots lobbying organization which made the endorsement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most organizations only endorse one candidate and then encourage their members and supporters to vote for and campaign for that single candidate. That UWD Action would endorse two candidates is unique. The group\u2019s leadership notes that both candidates<\/a> \u201csupport the key provisions of the Free to Move, Free to Stay platform, such as: shutting down for-profit detention camps, shrinking the budgets for ICE & CBP, stopping and reviewing deportations within the first 100 days, issuing executive orders to protect immigrants, and supporting legislation that provides a pathway to citizenship without provisions that hurt immigrants.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Super Tuesday left Elizabeth Warren with virtually nothing\nto show for her efforts.  Bernie Sanders,\non the other hand, remains a top contender in the Democratic nomination process\nright behind party favorite Joe Biden. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group\u2019s endorsement of Bernie Sanders is particularly intriguing. UWD notes<\/a> that \u201cour experience with the Clinton Administration and the Obama administration has taught us to not rely solely on the promises that candidates make on the campaign trail.\u201d Sanders kicked off his 2020 campaign<\/a> by promising to eliminate immigration enforcement agencies, pause all deportations, and legalize the 14.3 million illegal aliens in the United States. Yet Senator Sanders voted against<\/a> the 2007 Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, the McCain-Kennedy mass amnesty bill. Speaking on the bill at the time, Sanders said<\/a> \u201cIf poverty is increasing and if wages are going down, I don’t know why we need millions of people to be coming into this country as guest workers who will work for lower wages than American workers and drive wages down even lower than they are now.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few years ago, it was not unheard of for Democrats to\nsupport some kind of immigration restrictions or enforcement. Now, the leading\ncandidates largely endorse mass amnesty for illegal aliens as a standard of\ntheir policy pitch to voters. With the field greatly narrowed, it will be\ninteresting to see what path the eventual leader takes in an issue that is of\ngreat importance to many Americans. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ahead of Super Tuesday, United We Dream Action endorsed both Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren for president. In a press release, the activist group notes that \u201cUWDA is proud to endorse Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and a progressive vision that will get our community closer to liberation.\u201d United We Dream bills itself as the \u201clargest<\/p>\n

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