Senator Bernie Sanders sounded much more like his 2016-self as he praised Donald Trump’s immigration policy—with some caveats.
Sanders appeared on This Week with Jonathan Karl when he was asked whether he thought Trump had done anything right so far. Sanders replied, “Cracking down on fentanyl, making our borders stronger.”
“Look, nobody thinks illegal immigration is appropriate, and I happen to think we need comprehensive immigration reform, but I don’t think it’s appropriate for people to be coming across the border illegally.”
Sanders made clear, however, that he doesn’t agree with Trump’s mass-deportation policy in full, especially not the numbers Trump wants to deport.
“He wants to deport 20 million people who are in this country who are undocumented,” Sanders said.
“Well, you do that, you destroy the entire country.”
Sanders went on to quip that Trump’s “billionaire friends are not going to be picking the crops in California that feed us.”
“They are not going to work in meatpacking houses. That’s what undocumented people are doing.”
Sanders is currently travelling the nation with New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as part of their “Fight Oligarchy” tour, which is directed at Elon Musk and his efforts to cut government waste with the Department of Government Efficiency.
