Posted on 06/25/2019 11:15:13 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a top tier 2020 candidate, on Tuesday joined fellow candidate Julián Castro in a call to decriminalize illegal border crossings.
Warren has yet to release a comprehensive immigration reform plan, but confirmed in a statement to HuffPost that she agrees with Castro, a former Housing and Urban Development Secretary.
“We should not be criminalizing mamas and babies trying to flee violence at home or trying to build a better future. We must pass comprehensive immigration reform that is in line with our values, creates a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants including our DREAMers, and protects our borders," Warren said in a statement to HuffPost.
The Hill has reached out to the Warren and Castro campaigns for comment.
Castro called for the repeal of Section 1325, the law which makes illegal entry a federal misdemeanor, in April.
The former San Antonio mayor said the law has been weaponized to target immigrants.
Warren's reported support for decriminalizing undocumented border crossing follows reports of alleged unsanitary and unsafe conditions at migrant detention centers.
On Tuesday, it was announced acting Customers and Border Protection (CBP) commissioner John Sanders will be stepping down later this month.
The LAW is not what you “dream it to be” just because you lost the last vote.
There is no way under the sun that I could possibly care less about Warren’s or Castro’s opinion on things.
Liz, do you really believe in a border-free USA, or are you just trying to make news? You used to be a republican. What has happened to you?
Well, they don’t have to have them in their backyard. We do. Why don’t they care about that?
Whose Congress is this?
Did the voters know they were sending people to Washington to represent foreigners, and not them?
-PJ
So let’s ask Hoolian Castro if he would be OK for the nation of Mexico to “decriminalize” immigration and allow say, 50 million Chinese to simply walk in and take over his beloved Motherland.
BOTH parties promise the base exactly what it wants to hear.
Until they actually have both chambers and the presidency.
It wasn’t a million years ago that both parties had both chambers and the presidency.
Taxes didn’t go to 90 percent under dems and the wall wasnt funded under republicans.
Debt pretty much increases around the same amount no matter who is in there.
Kinda sick of it from both parties.
Nobody is going to make crossing the border a non crime and no one is going to pass a reparations bill.
Even if dems held everything.
Because like i said, it wasn’t all that long ago that they had everything.
Bush League Republicans like Flimsey Grahamnesty can’t wait to pass amnesty to give their friends across the aisle a permanent majority.
WTF, Trump is going to win in a landslide.
How about no borders.
These people have proven they want to destroy the United States.
Where was this babe when Clinton's Goons wrested Elian Gonzalez from his family?
ML/NJ
Why can’t we de criminalize income tax evasion and voter fraud... because that’s the same thing
Kinda sick of it from both parties.
If some lib thought it was ok to shoot up a school bus full of kids Lizzie would be cool with that.
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