Bernie Sanders’ Deportation Moratorium Isn’t A Full Moratorium

Sanders’ campaign manager said Thursday that violent criminals would still be deported under the candidate’s plan for a moratorium.

LAS VEGAS — On Thursday, Bernie Sanders’ campaign reversed one part of his immigration platform: a blanket moratorium on deportations pending a policy audit.

Instead, Sanders’ campaign manager Faiz Shakir argued that the while the moratorium on deportations “would affect 99% of the people living here,” it would not be absolute. The moratorium, he said, would not apply to “violent criminals” and that some people serving time in prison would have a deportation decided “on a case by case basis.”

That hews closer to what other Democratic candidates have said: They will not commit to a moratorium on deporting immigrants with criminal records, especially those convicted of a violent crime. Sanders’ promise of a blanket moratorium has won praise from immigration activist groups and was part of the reason several endorsed the senator over other candidates recently. Two major immigration groups said they understood a “moratorium” to mean a ban on deportations, with no exceptions.

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