Sanders Advocates Path to Citizenship, Using Executive Orders ‘If Congress Doesn’t Do the Right Thing’ [+video]

Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says he mostly agrees with President Obama, except when it comes to his deportation policies.

“And I would not support those,” Sanders said at Thursday’s Democratic debate in Milwaukee. “Bottom line is a path towards citizenship for 11 million undocumented people. If Congress doesn’t do the right thing, we use the executive orders of the president” . . .

Hillary Clinton said she “strongly” supports the president’s executive actions. “I hope the Supreme Court upholds them,” she said. “I think there is constitutional and legal authority for the president to have done what he did.

“I am against the raids. I’m against the kind of inhumane treatment that is now being visited upon families, waking them up in the middle of the night, rounding them up. We should be deporting criminals, not hardworking immigrant families who do the very best they can and often are keeping economies going in many places in our country.

“I’m a strong supporter of comprehensive immigration reform,” Clinton continued. “Have been ever since I was in the Senate. I was one of the original sponsors of the DREAM Act. I voted for comprehensive immigration reform in 2007. Senator Sanders voted against it at that time. (Read more from “Sanders Advocates Path to Citizenship, Using Executive Orders ‘If Congress Doesn’t Do the Right Thing'” HERE)

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