Sanders Tonight:
“In terms of 2007 immigration reform, yeah, I did vote against it. I voted against it because the Southern Poverty Law Center among other groups said that the guest worker programs that were embedded in this agreement were akin to slavery.”
Sanders in 2007:
“If poverty is increasing and if wages are going down, I don’t know why we need millions of people to be coming into this country as guest workers who will work for lower wages than American workers and drive wages down even lower than they are now.” [CNN (Transcript), 6/21/07; CNN (Video), 6/21/07]