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Bernie Sanders Slams Obama's Deportations at US-Mexico Border

  • Bernie Sanders points to the border fence during a visit to the U.S.-Mexican border alongside Maria Puga (L) and Christian Ramirez (R), May 21, 2016.

    Bernie Sanders points to the border fence during a visit to the U.S.-Mexican border alongside Maria Puga (L) and Christian Ramirez (R), May 21, 2016. | Photo: EFE

Published 22 May 2016
Opinion

The Vermont Senator paid a "historic" visit to Friendship Park on the U.S.-Mexico border where he stressed the urgency of immigration reform.

Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders paid a visit to the U.S.-Mexican border separating San Diego and Tijuana on Saturday where he reiterated his support for undocumented immigrants in the United States and promised to keep fighting against inequality.

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“The United States must move forward with immigration reform, we have 11 million people in this country who are undocumented and I believe that they deserve a path to citizenship,” Sanders said in a speech near the border wall, according to Univision.

“I am not in favor of the current policies of deportation,” he added. On the Mexican side of the border, the Vermont senator’s address was heard by people who have been deported from the U.S.

“Immigration reform means uniting families not dividing them,” Sanders continued. “If I am elected president, this is what I will try to do.”

On his visit to Friendship Park, which stretches into both San Diego and Tijuana despite being separated by a border fence, Sanders was accompanied by Christian Ramirez, a human rights advocate at the U.S.-Mexico border, and Maria Puga, the widow of Anastasio Hernandez, a Mexican migrant who was killed at the hands of border patrol agents in 2010.

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Ramirez told EFE that Sanders’ trip marked a “historic visit.”

“No presidential candidate, at least in the modern era, has visited Friendship Park,” the migrant rights advocate and director of the Southern Border Communities Coalition added.

Friendship Park serves as a meeting place for families and friends separated by the border wall, including parents deported away from their children.

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