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Posted on 04/10/2019 5:41:04 AM PDT by SJackson
As the Democratic Party tacks increasingly left on immigration, some key figures are moving to reset the rhetoric in their own ranks -- with Sen. Bernie Sanders taking a stand against “open borders” policies and former President Barack Obama highlighting the importance of immigrants assimilating into their host nation’s culture.
"I worry sometimes when, as we think about how to deal with the immigration issue, we think that any moves towards assimilation of the existing newcomers to the existing culture is somehow a betrayal or a denial of people’s heritage or what have you,” Obama said at a town hall event in Berlin on Saturday, before arguing that "if you’re going to have a coherent, cohesive society then everybody has to have some agreed upon rules, and there’s gonna have to be some accommodations that everybody makes, and that includes the people who are newcomers."
FORMER OBAMA BORDER OFFICIALS SAY THERE IS A 'CRISIS' AT SOUTHERN BORDER
Obama also defended the importance of immigrants learning their host nation's language.
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Illegals don’t want to assimilate - they want to set up their home country in the US; they come to the border waving their country’s flag singing their national anthem. They create their own enclaves.
Elections coming...time to start more
lYing to the peons.
Yes!
For Dems, it’s all about getting bodies into liberal states for the 2020 census.
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