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To citizenship and would get to the root cause of the issue which is we need a marshall plan for guatemala and honduras and el salvador so people can find safety and opportunity at home instead of coming to the united states to seek it. >> senator booker, what would you do on day one? and this is a situation that the next president will inherit. >> yes, sir. [ speaking spanish ] on day one, i will make sure that number one, we end the ice policies and the customs and border policies are violatin...

Proposing debt-free college and helping us to compete with countries like germany where the cost of college is between zero and 4%. canada where the cost of college is about 7% of median income. >> but there are far few people that live in canada. people love to compare us to canada. were talking 30 million people in canada. thats not new york city. >> you know what? we used to have the top educational system, k through college on the planet earth. the world economic forum competes that. the mos...

Real crises that have to be dealt with. whether it daca children and their parents, i will give them security not living in the anxiety-ridden limbo that theyre in right now. in neighborhoods and communities communities all across this country like the city i live in, i will stop these i.c.e. policies that are actually making us more dangerous by making, creating fear in communities, having immigrant communities afraid to come forward and talk with the police. i need to stop the things that are ...

General report showed, our reporting as well as the members of congress, is that there are some key just fundamental human rights that are being violated and that there may be a way to get around that. and i saw that again in ken cucinellis response to you about that father, about saying if he had just waited and come in the legal way. >> right. >> -- he could have had a shot. that father had waited for months to come in the legal way, and it is not safe to wait in those northern border towns in...

Crisis at the u.s. border has forced the 2020 contenders to weigh in with solutions. senator cory booker is the latest candidate to unveil his immigration proposal, which focuses on virtually eliminating immigration detention. >> a lot of folks seem to think that we have to have these somehow to protect ourselves. and instead what we often see is nursing mothers, pregnant women, elderly, children, held in conditions that does according to the governments own reports permanent harm to the childre...

Nursing mothers, pregnant women, elderly, children being held in conditions that does, according to the governments own reports, permanent harm to these children. and so by having a system thats not of detention facilities, but finding placements for them, working on the kind of things that everybody from the american pediatric academy to the american bar association have spelled out, again, evidence-based programs that give them safe and secure housing and resources. and actually even for paren...

Evidence-base prod grams th evidence-based programs that give them safe and secure housing resources and for parents a system so that they can come back through the civil process and be evaluated for their asylum claims and if they have legitimate pathways to become citizens in this country. >> so there would be still be facilities of some sort, they just wouldnt be detention facilities, is that accurate? >> again, we -- we can do this by relying on, number one, very short-term facilities that a...

Thats why from apprenticeship programs to pathways to college and careers, im going to be a president that stands up for public education and pathways for our kids to nurture our genius. this is common sense in the is what your fathers generation and my fathers and mothers generation did, they invested in infrastructure, they invested in education, they shupd small businesses. they create a country when we invest in each other they grow and they succeed. we stopped doing that. lets get back to d...

Debates last night was the discussion about health care. heres where theres 100% agreement everyone believes that everyone in this country should have access to quality affordable health care. everyone believes that. thanks to democrats we are 90 plus percent of the way there thanks to obamacare, thanks to lbj, the republican opponents called socialism. and we had a debate last night about how to get from 90, 92% to the holy grail. and we saw differences of opinions. some were advocating for wha...

We have to focus on pathways that arent massive expansions of government, but really bring together businesses and nonprofits. democrats and republicans and build lasting change. >> but can you have a platform that is focused on democrats and republicans if you want to get the nomination in a primary? joe biden said this week he looks forward to a day when republicans are no longer led by donald trump and he can work with them. he got huge pushback saying, dont you dare do that. but people acros...