Sen. Bernie Sanders

During COVID-19,

By the way, those were the people who were working in the meatpacking plants.

Those are the people who got a lot of the virus.

Those are the people who died.

They kept the economy going in many respects.

All right.

In my view, and I think what most Americans agree with, if you have lived in this, even if you came across the border illegally,

But if you have obeyed the rules of America, you haven't committed crimes, you're working hard, you're raising your family, you need a path towards citizenship as part of comprehensive immigration reform.

And by the way, given the fact that we have worker shortages all over this country, we need those workers, okay?

So that's, I think, what we need.

Especially skilled labor we need right now.

That's right.

And a lot of these people are doing important work keeping the economy going.

What Trump has done is in this big, beautiful bill of his, greatly expanded funding for ICE.

And in my view, what he is doing is not just trying to get – and by the way, it used to be we're trying to get the criminals out of America.

Remember that?

Yeah.

You know, rapists and the murderers.

We're well beyond that.

Now you're knocking on doors of American citizens.