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Castro gets tears in his eyes talking about Oscar and Valeria’s death. Says he introduced the first comprehensive immigration plan.
Booker speaks Spanish, says what Trump is doing is unacceptable and says he will reinstate DACA
Castro and Booker both talked about investments in northern triangle countries, Castro calls it his Marshall Plan for Central America.
Castro says his plan would stop criminalizing “desperation.”
Calls on every other candidate on stage to support ending illegal entry as a crime.
Calls on every other candidate on stage to support ending illegal entry as a crime.
Castro trying to own immigration on stage and own the debate on the issue. Keeps challenging Beto on criminalizing illegal entry. Beto says as a congressman he introduced legislation to stop criminalizing people seeking asylum. Castro says that’s not enough.
What Castro did on immigration is significant. It’s easy to pound the table and say your plan was the first comprehensive one. But tonight he fought to set the terms of the immigration debate, putting Beto on his heels, and keeping a lot of candidates like Warren on the sidelines
Tim Ryan also invokes images of children dying. Says terrorists in Guantanamo Bay get better health care than children coming here. Says Trump’s actions aren’t a sign of strength but a sign of weakness.
Booker says it’s “repugnant” that people are profiting off of private prisons.
Castro and Booker are the ones constantly invoking the root causes of immigration from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala. Biden will also undoubtedly address this tomorrow.
Surprised Warren didn’t jump in during the long immigration back and forth
This debate already had a more robust conversation on immigration on the Dem side than any one from 2016. The only comparison is a couple GOP debates last cycle but the content of the conversation might as well have come from different planets.
