Where do the remaining Democrats stand on immigration?
Article CAIRCO note:
Democrat candidates fall over themselves to give taxpayer benefits to illegal aliens
Article publisher:
Denver Post
Article date:
25 February 2020
Article category:
National News
Medium
Article Body:
... Denver and other cities with policies that limit cooperation with the federal government [illegal sanctuary cities] have found themselves in the cross hairs of Trump-directed actions attempting to withhold government grants and ramping up arrests of immigrants [illegal aliens] in the country illegally....
Path to Citizenship
All candidates support establishing a path to citizenship for immigrants [amnesty for illegal aliens]...
Deportation policies
Sanders supports a temporary moratorium on deportations.
Buttigieg supports a return to Obama priorities.
Biden, Bloomberg, Klobuchar, Steyer and Warren want to focus deportation on people who are criminals or pose national security threats, but not recent crossers.
Gabbard: unclear
Decriminalizing border crossings
Sanders, Steyer and Warren want to make illegal entry a civil matter, not criminal.
Biden, Buttigieg and Klobuchar support either narrowing the law or using it more selectively.
Bloomberg and Gabbard haven’t outlined detailed positions but say they want to end family separations at the border.
The border wall
All the Democratic candidates say they support more money for border security efforts, but they consider Trump’s call for a border wall to be wasteful and ineffective. Buttigieg and Gabbard have said, however, that they would consider physical barriers if experts recommend them in places, and Klobuchar has said she would consider some new wall funding if it’s part of a broader immigration compromise.*
Abolishing ICE
Sanders wants to dissolve both agencies and reassign their functions to other government agencies.
Bloomberg, Buttigieg, Gabbard, Klobuchar, Steyer and Warren have said they would consider restructuring the agencies or reassigning some functions.
Biden says he’d demand more transparency and oversight for the agencies.
Covering immigrants’ [illegal aliens'] health care
Biden, Sanders, Steyer and Warren have each said their proposals would give immigrants [illegal aliens]access to care.
Buttigieg says immigrants here illegally would be able to buy into his public insurance option, and Klobuchar said the government should cover immediate care needs until broader immigration reform is worked out.
Bloomberg and Gabbard: unclear ...
CAIRCO Notes
* A "broader immigration compromise" undoubtedly means amnesty for illegal aliens.