Bernie Sanders on ICE

From The Intercept:

“Sen. Bernie Sanders dropped his long-anticipated immigration platform. Arguably the most ambitious of any Democratic presidential candidate’s so far, the plan goes beyond a general call for a path to legal status for immigrants and takes full aim at President Donald Trump’s racist policies at the southern border. Unlike any other Democrat, Sanders calls for the break up of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and to improve working conditions and labor protections for industries that rely on an immigrant workforce. One piece of this is Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, which would ‘provide domestic workers with at least a $15 minimum wage, strong protections for collective bargaining, workers’ rights, workplace safety, and fair scheduling,’ regardless of immigration status. The release of Sanders’s plan comes after months of scrutiny from leftists and liberals over his immigration policy — long considered to be one of his primary weaknesses. And his plan follows the common left positions on immigration, including ones to reinstate and expand the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program, end for-profit detention, and overturn the Muslim ban. Notably, he also goes further than even his fellow progressive hopeful, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, in calling for a full demilitarization of the border. Notably, he also goes further than even his fellow progressive hopeful, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, in calling for a full demilitarization of the border. To break up ICE and CBP, under Sanders’s platform, their functions would be redistributed to other federal agencies. Under a Sanders administration, ‘deportation, enforcement, border and investigatory authority would return to the Department of Justice,’ naturalization and citizenship authority would go to the State Department, and customs authority would return to the Treasury Department.”