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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Adding another area where Sanders' record shows he's not helping women.  Immigration is a feminist issue.  http://now.org/resource/immigration-as-a-feminist-issue/

Bernie Sanders "voted in the House with hard-line Republicans for indefinite detention for undocumented immigrants, and then he sided with those Republicans to stand with vigilantes known as Minutemen who were taking up outposts along the border to hunt down immigrants." http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/mar/10/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-says-bernie-sanders-supported-minu/

Where's was his support for women when he made these votes?[/quote]

If you really want to understand that vote, which I doubt, it is very complicated and I do not have time to explain it but here is an article:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/10/yes-bernie-sanders-voted-to-kill-immigration-reform-in-2007-but-its-complicated/[/quote]

Actually, you're pointing to yet a another piece of immigration legislation where Sanders voted with the Republicans.  I was pointing to one from 2006.  I'm sure Sanders' specific reasons for voting the way he did on both pieces of legislation may be complicated, but the net effect is that he voted against immigrants and with Republicans.

I appreciate your recognition that when politicians cast votes or take positions, there's often a complex backdrop in play.  And just looking at one aspect of the action in a vacuum may give an unclear picture.  Are you just as forgiving of the context when you look at Hillary Clinton's record?  [/quote]

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