Democractic Candidates Talk Immigration with NYT

Have you explored the Meet the Candidates page on the New York Times? The paper asked 21 of the Democratic candidates the same questions and compiled their responses into short videos.

Question number 8 is “Do you think illegal immigration is a major problem in the United States?” Not to pick favorites, but Elizabeth Warren has a wonderfully nuanced response – talking about the U.S. withdrawal of aid in Central America as a factor alongside destabilized governments and increased gang violence. It’s this line of hers that really gets me: “…people are forced to flee for their lives. And as a consequence they end up at the American border whether that’s what they really wanted to do or not…” (emphasis mine).

-KitJ