“I think what we need is comprehensive immigration reform… You open the borders, my god, there’s a lot of poverty in this world, and you’re going to have people from all over the world. And I don’t think that’s something that we can do at this point. Can’t do it,” Sanders said.
It echoed comments he made during the 2016 Democratic primary in which he also stood. Sanders told Vox back in a 2015 interview that open borders is a right-wing policy backed by billionaire Republican donors the Koch brothers.
“That’s a right-wing proposal, which says essentially there is no United States,” Sanders said at the time. “It would make everybody in America poorer—you’re doing away with the concept of a nation state, and I don’t think there’s any country in the world that believes in that.
“If you believe in a nation state or in a country called the United States or U.K. or Denmark or any other country, you have an obligation in my view to do everything we can to help poor people. What right-wing people in this country would love is an open-border policy.
Anyway, Coulter's point remains ridiculous. A major reason we don't want an invasion of immigrants from south of the border is that we don't want the government taking our money to give it to a bunch of poor people. If she's willing to do that via socialism anyway...not much difference.