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‘Isn’t That Effectively Open Borders?’: Stephanopoulos Challenges Julian Castro Over Immigration Proposals
[DAILYCALLER] "When you add up all the proposals you’re calling for right now, decriminalization of crossing the border, no deportation absent other crimes, the offer of health benefits, also a possible path to citizenship. I know you reject the rhetoric about open borders, but isn’t that effectively open borders, not limiting how ‐ immigration in any real way?"Castro pushed back, saying that "there’s no way that we can call that open borders because we have 654 miles of fencing, we have thousands of personnel at the border. We have planes, helicopters, boats, security cameras, guns. That’s by no stretch of the imagination open borders." "Open borders is just a right-wing talking point. It always has been," he said. Castro did not say, and was not asked, whether he would cut back on the resources and manpower currently at the border. Like most Democrats, he has opposed calls to build a wall on the border. Castro told a news hound Feb. 21 in Iowa he would support the removal of parts of the border wall that have been erected under Trump. Posted by: Fred 2019-07-01 |
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