Sen. Bernie Sanders, the longest serving independent in congressional history, ironically confused President Trump and former President Obama while talking immigration on CNN Sunday.
In an interview with Jake Tapper on “State of the Union,” the Vermont senator and self-identified socialist said that the country needs "comprehensive immigration reform." He went on to deliver this gaffe:
"We need Obama — we need Trump now to make it clear that the United States of America is not a nation which tears children from their parents.”
Trump’s executive order merely replaces one inhumane act with another. In response to the overwhelming public outrage at his policy of tearing children away from their parents at the border, this administration thinks the appropriate response is to indefinitely detain families. https://t.co/whZNxHzLHv
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) June 20, 2018
So first, it was inhumane to separate illegal immigrant families, but now it's also inhumane to detain illegal alien children with their families?
What, then, is the solution, Sen. Sanders? Open borders?