Senator sanders let me take the opportunity to introduce my family. Wife, my son, and my brother at heart. My granddaughter and my grandson. Ok. Everyone sits. Everyone sit. Thank you so much for coming. And by the way, i am delighted to be here with the congressman from arizona. I think all of you know that raul has been, throughout his political life, one of the leaders in congress in the fight for immigrant justice, in the fight for racial justice, and the fight for economic justice, and social justice. Thank you so much for what you have done for our country. [applause] let me say a few words and we will get the panel going. I am running for president because the truth is, given the many crises that we face as a nation it is just too late for establishment politics and establishment economics. We need real change, today. [applause] and it is not credible to me that we could have candidates that take millions of dollars from wall street and other special interests and tell us that they will stand up to those special interests and create a government that will work for all of us. In terms of immigration issues and issues of particular concern, to the Latino Community, number one i want you all to know that i am the son of an immigrant. Firstgeneration. [applause] my father came from poland at the age of 17 years old to escape poverty. He came to this country with no money. He came not speaking a word of english. But he became a proud american because he saw what the United States could do. Whether country could do for his two sons. He never made much money, but he was a very proud american because of the opportunities this country gave him. Where we are today, and i will go into this in greater length, in terms of immigration policy, Everybody Knows that the immigration system is totally broken. Nobody debates that. Before we get to Immigration Reform, i want to say that as a United States senator and president of the United States, i am going to do, and have done, everything i can to combat the bigotry and ignorance of donald trump and people like that. [applause] all of you know, all of you know, we know American History the struggle that this country has gone through for hundreds of years, the fight against discrimination we had to deal with slavery, the terrible deeds we did to the american native people. Against italians, irish, jews, we had hoped especially after electing the first africanamerican president in our history that the blatant bigotry was behind us. But apparently it is not. And it is incumbent upon all of us to stand up to donald trump and tell him that his bigotry, his insults of the mexican and Latino Community, to the muslim community, to women, veterans, africanamericans, this is not what this country is about and we will not accept it for one second. [applause] secondly, Everybody Knows that we had 11 million undocumented people in this country and what many of us know, Everybody Knows, that many of those people working today are being exploited. We will get into that issue for a little bit of length, but there are people in california today, undocumented people, who are being cheated of wages, they are being underpaid and overworked, and we know that they cannot stand up for their rights because they are undocumented. And that is why among many other reasons, together we will pass comprehensive Immigration Reform in a path toward citizenship. [applause] i was at, i do not know if any of you have been there, but i was at Friendship Park in san diego. There is a park located on the ocean. It is a beautiful area looking at the pacific ocean. On the other hand, it is a very tragic and sad location, because there is a fence there. And apparently on weekends they open up the fence and they allow people from both sides to come together. But the fence and a screening is so tight that people cannot embrace each other. The only physical contact that a husband and wife or child and parent can have is literally sticking a pinkie to a tight string. How tragic is that . To see moms on one side and children on the other side. The function of real Immigration Reform must be to unite families, not divide them. [applause] and that is why we will end the current illadvised deportation policies. That currently exist. And if congress does not do with the American People want them to do. The majority of the American People want real Immigration Reform, if congress does not do that, then i will use all of the powers of the presidency through executive orders to do the best i can do. [applause] clearly, the preferable and longterm solution is comprehensive Immigration Reform. Last point, the Latino Community is by and large a workingclass community. And like the rest of the american workingclass, people are struggling to put bread on the table and to make ends meet. I believe that we have an economic agenda, not just Immigration Reform, but an economic agenda that makes sense and works for the Latino Community. It means, if you work 40 hours a week, you cannot be living in poverty. We are raising the minimum wage to 15 an hour. [applause] and we make sure that women get equal pay for equal work. [applause] that we create millions of good paying jobs by rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, our water systems, our waste water plant, our bridges, we can put 13 million in this country back to work 13 Million People in this country back to work and make our roads and country safer. [applause] the United States is the only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care to all people as a right. I live 50 miles away from the Canadian Border in vermont, all of the people in california have health care as a right. If elected as president , we will fight for medicare for all, a Health Care System that guarantees health care for all people as a right. [applause] we have hundreds of thousands of bright young people in this country who cannot afford to go to college, and many others who are leaving school, 30,000, 50,000, 70,000 in debt. In the year 2016, when we talk about public education, we should understand that that must mean making public colleges and universities tuition free. [applause] this is what i want to see. Yes, sweetheart . Ok. [applause] say, it is funny. I was just going to talk about that. I want to see the children of california and vermont and america, i want to see those kids who study hard and do well in school, i want to see those children know that if they study hard they will be able to get a College Education regardless of the income of their family. [applause] one other point and then we will get on with the panel. I know that many of you are deeply concerned about our criminal justice system. You should be, it is a broken system. We have a broken immigration system and we have a broken criminal justice system. Here are the facts, in this country today we have more people in jail than any other country on earth. You know that . We have 2. 2 Million People disproportionately africanamerican, latino, and native american. Here is Something Else we have in this country. We have communities in our inner cities, africanamerican communities, latino communities, we have communities in rural america, where the youth Unemployment Rate is 30 40 50 , that means you have kids that are 17 years of age and they leave high school and there are no Jobs Available to them. And when you have young people who have no jobs, who are not in school, who are hanging out on street corners, bad things can happen. And that is why i strongly believe that as a nation we should invest in our young people, in jobs, and in education. Not jails for incarceration. [applause] ok, that is a little bit of what i wanted to say. Take it away. Before we get started, i want to recognize one of the very first elected officials that came out in support of senator sanders candidacy. That is our councilmember. If you could please stand. [applause] the councilmember has a long history of advocating for latino communities, so thank you. [applause] the first question comes from a long time immigrant rights activists, from mexico. [applause] she has an indigenous ancestry and is an advocate for those indigenous communities and will share a story about the impact of trade and the indigenous background as it relates to the immigrant community. [applause] mr. Sanders [speaking a foreign language] i will interpret. Good afternoon, senator sanders. I was born in a mexican state the largest indigenous population. My communities are in the highlands, where we wake up in the clouds. We are the people of the clouds. Out of the 68 indigenous languages, 16 are spoken in our state. Mexico is a multicultural, multilingual country, were 7. 2 million mexicans speak indigenous languages. And 11. 3 speak only indigenous language. One out of five mexicans is indigenous. According to the mexican human rights division. I come from a sacred place where very few people live, this is a ghost town. Because most people have moved to los angeles. Indigenous communities are rich in culture, however, every day we are forced to move to u. S. Due to the u. S. Our lands are being taken by national companies, many of them u. S. Owned. When we stand up for human rights, we are threatened by the Mexican Police and army. We saw the 43 missing students who were mostly indigenous. Many members of the mexican army and police are training and security cooperation. They are not only waging a war on drugs, but they are waging a war on indigenous communities in the most indigenous states. Many are working for u. S. Companies in mexico. We go from being land owners, to become a lowwage workers. That is the reason we come to the u. S. , it is the economic policies. In the u. S. , we are in the same condition, we make more than 20 of the cultural in the labor force in california. We face discrimination and racism from other mexican brothers and sisters. We have integrated into the u. S. Culture and in this audience you will find Indigenous People who have graduated from harvard, stanford, ucla, not only with bachelors degrees, but also with masters and phd. We contribute economically and culturally to the social fabric of the United States. We are proud to call ourselves americans, because we are the original owners of the american continent. [applause] yes, we are proud of being from this great country. We also have the right to be treated equally while being different. For this reason i ask you, what will you and your team do to build an Inclusive Coalition that acknowledges the Diverse Community and the policies that will recognize the Indigenous Peoples rights and make immigration voluntary . Will you ensure that we can no longer be led to poverty and misplacement in our native oaxaca. And prohibit any future agreements that will increase unemployment, low wages, poverty and displacement of Indigenous People all over . Thank you and welcome to california. [applause] host thank you. Mr. Sanders thank you. Can everybody repeat . [all speaking] thank you. Mr. Sanders thank you. Thank you for your presentation. You covered a lot of area, all important. Truly important. One of those things, let me start with something, and i will touch on the issues. Trade. Our current trade policy is going back to nafta have not only been a disaster for workers in this country, they have been a disaster for workers and farmers in mexico. [applause] mr. Sanders and as you have indicated, what has happened and what these trade agreements are, they are part of a Global Ethics for a race to the bottom. Some of you remember jack welsh, does not name mean anything . He used to be the head of general logic. General electric. This is what he said before he got a 400 million retirement package. He said, if i had my wishes, i would put our manufacturing plants, ge manufacturing plants on a barge and i would take them to those parts of the world where wages were the lowest. And if somebody can go lower than mexico, we will go there. Lower than china, lower than the lower then to vietnam. We will find a place where we can employ people for pennies an hour. You are looking at somebody unlike secretary clinton, who opposed all of these trade agreements with have cost us millions of jobs. [applause] mr. Sanders that is what those trade agreement have done in this country. What they have done in mexico is drive small family farmers off of their land. There are communities in mexico where you no longer can find, farms because they have shut down and they are unable to compete with companies coming from the United States. So this is a policy that has hurt workers in this country and hurt farmers in mexico. We will together transform the trade policies so that they work for the working people of this country, so that they work for the poor people of other countries, not just the ceos of large corporations. That is our trade policy. [applause] mr. Sanders as i go around the country, i have learned a lot because i have met for many people with many people, from diverse backgrounds. Point number one, we should be incredibly proud of the fact that in this country, unlike others, we have folks from hundreds of countries in every continent on earth coming to the United States of america. Donald trump does not understand it, but our diversity is our strength. [applause] mr. Sanders think what your people are adding to the culture of this country. Think what people from africa are adding to the culture of this country, from europe, from asia, that is our strength and we have got to build on the strength and not allow people to attack that strength. By that, what i mean is all of us are proud of where we come from. I just spoke last night to a group of native americans who understand that one of the challenges that their young people have is they have broken the roots from where they come from. As human beings it is important to all of us know where we come from. That we maintain the languages that we, our people knew. [applause] mr. Sanders our culture that we protect the sovereign right of people and to the promises made. To get to your very first question, whether it is dealing with the immigrant population or any other group, we have many problems in this country. And anybody thinks that i know all the answers, that is very wrong. The people that know the answers are the people that are doing the work, living the lives every single day. [applause] mr. Sanders and what a good leader does for his or her self interests, you bring in the communities and say ok, what do you see as the problems, what do you see as the solutions, and how do we go forward . That is always part of what i have tried to do and certainly that is what i would try to do with the immigrant population. Thank you. [applause] host our next presenter is a mother, she is undocumented and she is fighting for her right for her family please help me introduce betty. [applause] hi, i am an undocumented mother. I have been living here for 30 years. I never had the hope that i would be a citizen. I started talking about Immigration Reform i have a hope. I want to go back to my country. I feel like i am in a i am in san diego because it is a checkpoint. I go to another checkpoint. I feel trapped. I see every day when i get home, i think about getting back. Before, i was working and i was fine. But all of the hopes obama promised us, he is breaking the families apart. And when i say all these things that could happen. I talk with people every day. I pretend i am strong. But i am afraid to be deported. I have been living in this country more times then in my country. I feel like i deserve to be here. I work and i do a lot of things. I dont have nothing. I do not have hope. I am really afraid to be separated. I have a mom that is from tijuana. And this lady called me once and she was deported. She asked me, what will you do . She said, i am going to cross. If i die i said, no you do not have to do that. I feel like a mother. I feel like so i keep talking to her and now they are fighting to come back to this country. So i see what is going to happen for all of these people. What is going to happen. So my question is, what are you going to do with the reunification of these families and to stop the deportation . That is my concern. What will happen . [applause] mr. Sanders first let me say thank you for your courage. Thank you for your willingness in your own difficult times to help other people. Number one, as i mentioned earlier, our immigration policy must be to unite families, not divide them. I will end the deportation policies that currently exist so you do not have to live in fear. [applause] i was in phoenix a number of months ago and i will never forget, sometimes you see things, i remembered about a half a dozen teenage kids, latinos young ladies. Tears were coming down their cheeks because they expressed the same fear. On any given day, they could be separated from their mother or father. And they live in fear. Number one, we will end the current deportation policies. [applause] mr. Sanders and number two, we will fight for the comprehensive Immigration Reform. You have been in this country for 30 years. [applause] mr. Sanders if you have been in this country 30 years then you are an american in every sense and we need to make that legal as well. [applause] mr. Sanders and if rauls colleagues in the house refuse to do the right things, we will look at all options in terms of expanding Immigration Rights through the executive powers that the president has. That is what we will do. Thank you very much. Raul, do you want to add anything . I think that you covered it. Host our final presenter is a representative of a Day Laborer Network that organizes imMigrant Workers all throughout Southern California and has been doing this for a long time, a wellrecognized leader across the country. Please let me welcome him. [applause] gracias. Buenas tardes. I am a mexican from el salvador. [applause] so i can say [speaking spanish] welcome. Welcome to los angeles. [applause] a city that is on the road to becoming a city. Isnt that right . Even if donald trump does not like it, we are going to become a full century city sanctuary city. And with you in the white house, our country will become a sanctuary for everyone. So i have had the honor to work with men and women who stand on public sidewalks in front of Home Improvement stores and it is an honor to work with workers, together with many colleagues who are here in this room today, and many colleagues across the country, we have been able to set up worker centers. And in these centers, the face of the new labor movement, many of these centers with the organizers do, we make sure that we send people, if they do not get paid, they get it back. We look at the basic remedy for those circumstances, but it is not enough. We connect 70 of these worker centers, so we make sure that the rights of workers are respected. Not just the rights of workers, but there immigrant rights as well. Before being immigrant, people are workers and these rights do not end at the border. So as we fight to improve wages and working conditions and thank you for being one of the champions for the fight. Fight for 15. [applause] there are many abuses that go on unanswered in our country and every day millions of dollars are stolen from workers. Somehow our country has made the decision, our country has built an incredible infrastructure to persecute the young man who is still selling candy at a local store, particularly if he is a man of color. We have an infrastructure, our city spends half of the budget in persecuting people like that. But the infrastructure to persecute employers who steal wages, is very small. There is one investigator in los angeles county. It does not make sense. As much progress as we have made nationally, we have to make sure that those decisions that caps Council Members have made, get enforced. As a representative of imMigrant Workers, the best way to start making sure that we enforce the law is by making sure that every undocumented worker who is cheated of wages, every undocumented worker whose rights are violated, that they have an opportunity to seek immigration status. If a Migrant Worker is the victim of a crime, they cannot fight for a visa. So what about if they are victims of workplace violations, would you support that effort . Mr. Sanders absolutely. [applause] mr. Sanders let me just, if i might very briefly. I want to tell you a story. In 2007, i had heard about the exploitation of undocumented workers in florida. And i went down there. And what i saw in a town where they grow tomatoes, tomato their working conditions were abysmal. I need your help on this because i want to ask you a question. We just came back from the delano area where i had the opportunity to go into a home was on his Hunger Strike in order to protest the exploitation of farmworkers and the pestis die they were pesticide they were exposed to. Thousands of workers today are being cheated from their wages as farmworkers. Is that accurate . Yes. Senator sanders the reason, and i know this is what you are combating if you have no legal rights and i pay you three dollars an hour, what are you going to do about it . That is what you are trying to reform. Opposing vigorously this type of labor exploitation of undocumented workers is the right thing to do, the moral thing to do, but do you know what else . I do know there are some workers that are not that are not undocumented. Workersyers can pay terrible wages. It is part of what we call the race to the bottom. We have to try to make sure that undocumented workers get treated fairly and have real recourse. Your recourse is that if someone cheats them, that gives them legal position. That makes sense. Unless i am mistaken, you have employers out there who are laughing all the way to the bank. Workers,ripping off and making a lot of money rather than paying legal wages. Employers hold those accountable. Host we are now going to go to questions from the audience and caesar will be here. The team will select the first question. I want to make a statement first. This is from one of our great supporters. [speaking spanish] senator sanders ok. Then the first half and arturo gave me the second half. I knew i shouldve studied spanish better in high school. I knew it. Maria is an undocumented worker from the city of vent her a. Ventura. [inaudible] she wants to provide a great future for her son. She is a potential dapa recipient. , the undocumented community is doing a lot of work in ventura, california. Sanders congratulations on your son going to college. I will use the executive powers obviously again, we Want Congress to pass comprehensive Immigration Reform. That is the best approach. But if congress does not do the right thing, i will build upon what president obama has done and expand dapa. [applause] [speaking spanish] architecturesor of at the california state university, pomona. Forve been teaching there 14 years. Since 2002, tuition went from 1400 to todays tuition which is over 5,000. That still seems like it may be affordable for some, but for our immigration families, that is a really big family. Our families are working families. Our students are under a lot of pressure to have to work instead of going to school. What can your future presidency do for us . Sen. Sanders this is an issue that i feel strongly about and it is an issue that the vast portion of the American People feel strongly about. Here is what the issue is. It is a nobrainer. We live in an increasingly competitive global economy. And if this country is going to succeed economically and in other ways, we need the best educated workforce in the world. Right . [applause] work really if we smart, what we would be doing is urging everyone, not just the younger people, the economy changes every day, your job changes every day. We would provide opportunities to everyone to get the best education they could. Right now, as you have just indicated, the cost of college is unaffordable to hundreds of thousands of young people. Others who go to college, and up working. It is unbelievable. You probably see this every day. These are young people trying to do well in school but they are 30, 40 hours a week. How can you have the ability to do well in school when you are working so many hours, going to bed so late, kids are working night shifts. All of that is crazy. It is not good for this country. And that is why, as i said earlier, i believe that public colleges and universities like yours, should be tuition free. [applause] and also, i believe, that we have to deal with the crisis of student debt. A lot of people who graduate or leave school are deeply in debt. And they have to pay off that debt, year after year, sometimes decade after decade. That means they cannot afford to get a car. A house. They cannot get married. They cannot have children. That is crazy stuff. What we have got to do is change our mentality regarding education. Rewardld encourage and people. I want you to get a good education. I dont think you should be punished for getting a good education. [applause] well bernie, that sounds like a great idea. You are a nice guy. How will you pay for all of that stuff . Us to another issue which distinguishes our campaign from Senate Secretary clintons or anyone elses. We live in a country with more income and wealth inequality than any other major country on earth. The top 20 wealthiest people in america own more wealth than the bottom half of america. What we had seen for the last 30 years is the middle class shrinking and shrinking and shrinking wall Health Care Costs and education costs are soaring and that is why so many middleclass families are in trouble today. And i believe that it is time to tell the billionaire class, time to tell wall street, they cannot have it all. That we are going to put a tax on wall street speculation that will raise more than enough money, more than enough money to make public colleges and universities tuition free and substantially lower student debt. This is not a radical idea. In germany, the you know how much it costs to go to college . Zero. In scandinavia . Zero. These countries are smart. Theirre investing in young people and in the future of their country. We should do the same. [applause] mr. Sanders, i am from the san fernando valley. 40 of Homeless Youth in our country are part of the lgbt community. And that is a huge issue. Many of them, when i myself was i sell veterans manyere homeless that also transgender youth who were undocumented. If elected president , we are working hard on that, can you commit to a path for citizenship for all undocumented lg pt youth . Lgbt youth can you make Family Acceptance a prioritywareness as a public issue. Senator sanders that me just say this. Our job is to end all forms of discrimination. Discrimination based on color, race, sexual orientation. Ins country coming this country, we treat all people with equality. The benefits that go to anybody goes to everybody and that is my pledge to you. [applause] arturo, we have get going fairly soon. Ok. Sen. Sanders it is a pleasure to have you here in this iconic place near the Mexican Community in los angeles. To tell you that we share your views and your vision for america on important issues for our community. Education, Health Coverage for all, global warming. But we need your help. Even beyond this election. But, i want to assure you that we will do everything we can to put you in the white house because we want you for our president. [applause] sen. Sanders thank you. We need your help in repealing the 1996 law signed by president clinton that criminalized our people, documented and undocumented that has resulted in so many deportations and separations of so many families leaving their children behind crying with noah to care for them. Secondly, we need to get rid of the private Detention Centers that have profited from the suffering of our people. Can we count on you as president . let me starts with the second and go to the first. Inyou read our platform terms of criminal justice, it is very clear that we have got to end corporate ownership of prisons and Detention Centers. [applause] our job should be to keep people out of jail. If you are a corporation that owns a jail, what is your incentive . Money by getting more people into jail. We have got to end that and i will. Of our important planks on our criminal justice reform. Point that you made also there is a lot of pain in the immigrant community. We heard it from betty and we have heard it from so many people. People who are afraid of being deported, who are afraid of being separated from their children or children being separated from their parents. That is not what our immigration policy should be. We unite families, not divide families. [applause] we love bernie. To i cannot add to what the senator has already said except to say that the immigration platform on this sanders campaign. And bernie speaks specifically to the question. Andou do not dismantle repeal those provisions of the 1996 law that has led to this situation, you cannot have the kind of comprehensive Immigration Reform that we want. It has to be part of it. The other thing. , thed the quota requirement that so many beds be filled for these forprofit prisons. One desperate one of the reasons why so many of us have committed so strongly to ernie is that we see the effect in our communities. [speaking spanish] what he says in this setting is the same as what he says in another setting. And i think that is very important. [applause] one last question. Good afternoon. In a car wash in vermont. I am with local 675. I am following the steps. I am doing what i am supposed to do. [applause] i am an imMigrant Worker. I am just one of many imMigrant Workers. Ask is how are you going to help us . i am going to help you. You are looking at somebody, raul and i have worked together on these issues for many years. Youre looking at someone that has a strong proworker record as any member of the United States congress. I do not know what wages you are making now, but we will have or fight for a federal minimum wage of 15 an hour. [applause] we will fight for legislation that makes it easier for workers to join unions. [applause] and we are going to fight to make sure that every person in this country has health care as a right, not a privilege. [applause] thank you so much. One last question for senator sanders. Thank you so much for coming. Our communities are over policed. Ouruse of that reason, communities have many convictions. President obama has supported felons and families. Will you give immigrants that have convictions as Second Chance . I dont want to give you a definitive answer other than to say that we are going to take a very hard look at all aspects of criminal justice. We have a broken system right now. Let me give you one example. I am not here to speak for marijuana or against marijuana but what the story is is that people in minority communities get arrested for possession of marijuana at a much higher rate than people do in the white communities. That leads to criminal records and all kinds of problems. I am aware of the problems in ice. I have talked to families that have been very negatively impacted by ice. And yes, we will take a very hard look at that. The last point i want to make on criminal justice. Itbe i should have made earlier. If anyone in our country gets ,illed while in Police Custody broadly speaking Police Custody, that will trigger under my administration and immediate investigation by the federal department of justice. [applause] you for raising those issues. I did not want to give you a definitive answer but we will take a look at criminal justice two k to z from letter a letter tz. We want to end the militarization of local police departments. There is a lot of work to do and i look forward to working with you to make those improvements. Thank you. [applause] ok, thank you very much. Chanting bernie] next, live, your calls and comments on washington journal. Then, newsmakers with the air force secretary. After that, discussion on efforts to combat isis and al qaeda. 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