Thread by @HMAesq

.@BernieSanders' immigration plan is good.

It's really, really good.

Ultimately, it goes where @ewarren's plan doesn't: by respecting immigration as a labor, climate change, and foreign policy issue - and wresting it away from criminality.

berniesanders.com/en/issues/welc…

I'm a practicing immigration lawyer. Both the Sanders and Warren plans would overhaul the practice of immigration law, and in an objectively good way.

The Warren plan:

medium.com/@teamwarren/a-…

Getting rid of the 3/10 year bars alone (which both candidates commit to) would singularly change the advice I give to the majority of my clients. Restructuring (abolishing) ICE would, too. As would creating Article I immigration courts. There's a lot to love in both plans.

But in evaluating both plans, I asked myself, "Which plan would allow the advocacy community to hold the next President's feet to the fire over concrete promises made?"

I also asked myself, "Which plan would empower advocates to do so?"

Sanders' plan wins.

To be fair, Warren released her plan first, so Sanders had the benefit of a first look. But Sanders' is more concrete. And it is abundantly clear that his team consulted not only with immigration advocates, but with labor, environmental, and racial justice advocates.

I've slogged through white nationalism-infused immigration policy for the last 3 years in my lawsuit against the @UMich to unseal the #TantonPapers, and seen how they successfully married immigration to criminality.

We've all seen the trauma of this bad marriage.

The Sanders plan not only divorces immigration from criminality, it marries it to empowerment and equity across the board. For immigration is emphatically a labor issue, an environmental issue, a racial justice issue, a foreign policy issue.

It's a really, really good plan.