Bernie Sanders: "Open borders? That's a Koch brothers proposal" 

Deplorable Pirate Captain Gunbeard What if we set up a system where the average American shared in the profits of the increased prosperity of open borders? And it’s of course an extremely humanitarian thing to do for the immigrants themselves. I made a video discussing this topic. If you have criticism feel free to drop a comment

@@@heterolayman9402 *_"What if we set up a system where the average American shared in the profits of the increased prosperity of open borders"_* This has to be a joke. The last thing open borders would bring the U.S. would be profits and prosperity. You people need to live in reality.

For real would of been my first thought

Same, surprised it's on Vox as well

Realizing they can t hide it cuz they might need it to take the running from him

@cringe2win146There's no such thing as 'democratic' socialism, it's all communism, which is basically identical to noozism.

He sold out

@@DigitalNomadOnFIRE 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Year is 2024, how's it going?

This Bernie is dead :(

Ironic catchphrase considering he changed his stance on gun rights as well. Lol

The Democratic establishment career politicians will never let him win.

Based Nazbol Bernie

when did he change his position?

But he DID. Tulsi Gabbard let Dave Rubin lie about it without push back, but Marianne Williamson put Dave Rubin in his place.

Ivan Radenkovic no he isn’t, the entire progressive movement in America is for Bernie and against white nationalism (aka Trump)

@@bryanzarate2602 You missed the point. Think about it.

No, then he would want to expel all non-whites from the US which he doesn't. I don't think there are many people who consider this White Nationalism. Nationalism, sure, but that's a different thing.

indeed.

@@torkelsvenson6411 you also missed the point.

if it is time he will

@@NeightrixPrime - I'm sure they've downloaded the footage - in case Vox deletes it.

He will lose supporters to Bernie if he does.

Oh just wait.

@@user-hv7cj3yb7u No he wont. Bernie now SUPPORTS Open Borders. This shows what a flip flopper he is.

Yes.

Which is ironic because what Bernie is saying, workers rights and improving lives of the majority of citizens in the name of democracy, is traditionally a Democrat ideal. Hence, Trump’s policies are more focused on socialism and thus Democrat-like in nature, and the Democratic base looks more like capitalists - being against workers rights and against improving the lives of their own country. Now if you support workers rights or if you’re a socialist you’re now a nationalist? But those are Democrat platforms... so traditional Democrats are now nationalists and those who are new ‘woke’ Democrats are in the pocket of capitalists? Lol where is the critical thought people?

No

His solutions are different from Trump’s, that’s why they won’t support him. Now, they along with other dems are lying about many of his positions, but that won’t change many minds if it suddenly stops.

He only said we shouldn't have open borders, he didn't say that we shouldn't have immigrants or accept refugees and migrants.

Sadly he has changed his position. He now supports open borders (and calls it open migration)

@@magnumlifestyle6327 that part lost me to Bernie. I will not support a person who support open borders

@@Evili555 yeah, sadly he should’ve remained more conservative on guns, immigration, woke politics, would’ve done very well with economic progressives/social moderates like myself which make up a good chunk of the country

@@magnumlifestyle6327 citation needed

Yep, me too. So sad he caved in.

His kind hate nations having any sense of self identity and pride

Bingo.

@@notthisprickagain8499 I'm against open borders but that's a terrible reason to be against open borders

@@paramountofpuns6913 Nope we are all aware they are trying 5heir best to make white people go extinct

@@antiracistbaby1085 wow

What do you suggest? Hand your economy over to another nation?

Sadly, not anymore.

@@libertarianheretic412 "Perhaps you mean available jobs are shared among a larger labor pool so less jobs are available" That's what Bernie meant. "Well luckily there isn't a hard limit on the total number of jobs that can be created" There is. Low skilled immigrants, in general, aren't going to create new jobs. So, if the amount of US born citizens remains constant, but the amount of low skilled immigrants increases, then there will be more people competing for the same amount of job, which means lower wages for everyone. There are also certain industries in which you cannot create new jobs indefinitely. Mining is an example, if you already have the required amount of miners in every mine in the country, then you don't need to hire more.

Open👏Borders👏For👏Israel👏Down👏With👏The👏Juice

@Jano van Pelt maybe he is listening or reading traditional economic Books for BA program

Right? haha

No has argued for completely close borders the purpose is to have immigration coincide with supply and demand so that wages and job opportunities for domestic workers especially in the African-American Community are not affected

No. He was for completely closed borders, but flip flopped because the democratic party establishment that he wanted to be a part of is in favor of open borders.

ok lenin

Who has argued for completely closing borders?

I agree but there no way to invest in Mexico. Only investing in a corrupt government that's in the pocket of the the cartel.

Only 4% of the world is American, how can you possibly sit here and say that Americans, who even at their most destitute and poor are more wealthy than billions of people, need to be the forefront of our society? Why does inequality only matter for your country? This idea is underlying an unsubstantiated fear of immigrants, for a 2nd generation immigrant has just as much ability to be a productive American as any human being.

So true. I sent Bernie cash largely on the stand he took in this old video. That Bernie is is gone. Racist Biden/democrats are now burying black and brown communities in unvetted, unvaccinated peoples from the world over. It's true systemic supremacy.

Australia has universal healthcare. You’re deluded if you think the US can’t have it too

@@latenightlogic You misunderstand. I support the idea of universal healthcare, but I don't think you can have it AND open borders too.

Pelosi is very far right of center.

Abram Carroll no she’s not.

@@notayoutuber1856 Yes she is.

@@abram730 Fiscally or socially?

@@abram730 No, no she is not.

This is just Bernie sanders. There is not versions.

He bowed to the "progessive" mob, like every other democrat.

Can you post a video of him flipping on this?

Link to him flipping?

@@Michael-mh2tw The "link" would be his entire 2020 campaign, in which he defended open borders and echoed the far-left idea that borders and walls are racist. Quite the opposite from what he's saying here.

@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath not even one video?

Stikibits Well, that's a black and white view of the world if I ever saw one...

Maybe, but people who have a job shouldn't be living in poverty.

Stikibits Let's change that, shall we? Let's start by having you explain to all of us, how you define "Democracy", and why that is needed in order to achieve economic equality.

Erick Bravo So just having a job, no matter what it is, despite how many hours you work, you're entitled to whatever you deem is not low enough to live in a poor neighborhood. Don't you see the flaw with that thinking?

Chigau Pop the bottle People are entitled to a good standard of living for the work that they provide. Policies that stand in the way of that are bad policies and people have a right to change them. This includes making sure that profits are given to the people who produce them.

@Father Ted, Most people think they don't agree with Bernie Sanders, until they finally actually listen to what he's saying. Most people who usually don't agree with Sanders have had what he says translated to them by the MSM, instead of getting it straight from the horse's mouth.

@@sterlingprice5963 Your comment has aged particularly well with the Sanders Joe Rogan Interview, people in the comments express the same sentiment.

So xenophobia is the right position?

@@jdkantorowicz Yes, "Xenophobia" is just a word used to demonize people who care about their nation, heritage, and culture.

@Andrew Bennett I would like to, but if I do I hate Jews or something

Azer Simple Make no mistake. He doesn’t believe this anymore. He fell in line with the crooked Dems.

bernie sanders hates america #

You guys are kidding aren’t you? One of the few times you agree? So you’re not a fan of free health care?

As a European its strange to see Americans complaining all over internet that they cant afford anything any more - rent, groceries etc. compared to the salaries. If you open the borders to millions of low wage workers - guess what happens ?

@@latenightlogicit’s not free, and paid for in stolen taxes

we don't have open borders, we have a law enforcement and processing manpower shortage for political reasons. Most claims of Americans"suffering" from immigrants of any kind are lies. Illegal aliens do more to help the economy, but right wing hate lie about that. Suffer the facts if you want.

don't vote Sanders then! He 180'ed on this and calls everyone racist who doesn't want open borders now. Hes a fraud

Luckyduck absolute lies stop

it would be catastrophic, period. if you want to live in Central America just move there.

Bruh they still want it

Nobody wants open borders. this is a republican rhetoric

Sold out to who?

@@harrisonfackrell Open borders inc. He's powerless to prevent it from our left.

@@harrisonfackrell Jews

He didn't sell out, decriminalizing crossing the border and open borders are two different things.

@@ChristianRoland7 How so? Decriminalization essentially means ZERO CONSEQUENCE of coming into the country, what's to stop someone from coming here then?

Aidan C in 2020 the Dems want to decriminalize illegal boarder crossing, so ur right now they think it’s racist about 10 years ago they didn’t 🤷🏽‍♀️

Go back 20 years ago before Bush and Republicans were pro immigration and Democrats against it, against open borders. That's the reality.

Most liberals were against Open Borders for decades because only businesses wanted them for cheap illegal foreign labor

Bernie's overlap with Democrats is only really that they are more big government.

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Sold out to what? After 50 years he sold out? Grow up

+Nick39891 People including the establishment just don't seem to understand it.

It's called Civic Nationalism.

It's not a globalism / corruption issue. It's a compassion / being selfish issue. And by the looks of it, neither Trump nor Sanders gives a rat's ass about the truly impoverished living in less developed countries.

Maybe Sanders would, he seems to be among the most righteous politicians. But, tbh this is a dilemma that is hard to solve without a price, to open the border or to close it have their own respective pros and cons. What he mentioned is a rational truth, not an irrational phobia against foreigners. I am an immigrant myself, but I see that the age of open-border immigration is coming to an end, this might make many of us hyper-emotional, the left might find this unjust and the right might find this a green light, but we as society must make the most rational yet empathetic decision to both save our future and reduce pain and misery on earth. Automation and outsourcing is killing jobs, especially low-skilled jobs, when more immigrants come in they reduce wages, big firms like that, but this negatively affects lives of the working class and the middle class.

@@alexkocian690 What makes you think America can have socialism and open borders at the same time lol?

Unfortunately he's flip-flopped. Bernie Panders!

That doesn’t mean the border opens. You still will need to go through customs to get to America, and you are able to face deportation if you commit a crime.

Racist Biden/democrats are burying black and brown communities in unvetted, unvaccinated peoples from the world over. It's true systemic supremacy.

I’m ashamed of the left in general.

+Bryce C He completely avoided the initial question, which was about the moral and philosophical problem of denying desperately poor people entry into a country merely because they were born on the other side of an arbitrary political border. He immediately made that question about the Koch brothers and the "right wing" wanting a lot of low-skilled, low-wage workers and how he is opposed to that because he doesn't like that people are poor and unemployed. That is an impressive political spin, but it is absolutely speaking around the question, just like all politicians do. I mean, this section of the interview is about "global poverty" and Bernie does a great job of saying absolutely nothing about global poverty until the last sentence (although he might have said more in the full interview - I haven't seen the uncut version) where he offers absolutely NO solutions whatsoever. All he offers are utopian goals, devoid of any viable "plans of achieving that goal"--again, just like all politicians. So he is an impressive politician, but he responds with political spin and talking points just like every other candidate.

He answered the point completely! The moral obligation of our government is to our citizens and the world!

delon a sarcasm? I hope?

Alex M The many economic fallacies and moral problems inherent in that policy aside, I wasn't addressing any policy specifically. I was merely commenting in opposition to the OP's idea that he actually answered the interviewers' question here. He did not. He said absolutely nothing substantive about global poverty or open borders. He instead spun the question, as you would expect from any skilled politician, so that he could talk about what he wanted to talk about. I'm not saying that is a good or bad thing, just that he absolutely spoke like any politician would.

Tyler H Respectfully I disagree, I believe he did answer the question correctly to the philosophical intent of the question. The question was on the philosophical level how do you weight it (Foreign Aid, Poverty.. etc) He weighs it on the fact that his first obligation is to first serve the citizens of the united states before others. He already established that he wanted a nation state, so being America, however on a philosophical level he stated that he will serve the united states citizens before anyone else. Philosophically thats his intent, to serve Americans first because we live in America and being the president of the U.S. you should represent your citizens. Now down below me I see a comment stating that pathway to citizenship and open borders are 2 different things which is entirely true. With a pathway to citizenship, that would allow the immigrants he was talking about to become citizens, pay taxes, and then they would get those same rights as other Americans because they're an American. I see here now that Bernie did vote Yes on the DREAM act which is fast track to citizenship. I think the problem was in the questions asked in the video which paints an unclear picture of his actual intent. The question was making America open borders, which is a very extreme proposal which Bernie then stated is not his intent. Then they jumped into the philosophical question; however the more moderate approach (pathway to citizenship) wasn't mentioned trailing the extreme proposal of open borders. So it didn't really address his views very well. He supports a pathway to citizenship proposal, which would then help these immigrants become naturalized citizens. Citizens is the priority to Bernie. Also the question was how he weighs foreign aid and poverty etc. now this question wasn't statistical and addressing the actual global poverty now just how he weighs his policies. He stated that the top 1% in the global economy own more than the 99% below, and that making jobs in foreign countries is a must. Thats how he weighs his foreign aid policies and in the global poverty rates. In the end I believe his statement was a direct assessment of the open borders policy which would degrade the american workers by giving off our jobs too easily to others. That's the philosophical weighing system he is using, and he realizes that an open border would be disastrous to American jobs which he has denounced before, letting American jobs go to other countries where they can pay less than here, only in this situation an open border would allow those jobs to take place here for cheap.

Really? Point to me where he says he wants open borders.

@@ShieldAre he wants to abolish ICE and demolish the border wall, you doesn't need to be a genius to figure out where his policy leads.

@@_bob9740 He voted against ICE under George Bush so it's not surprising that he would want to abolish it. He was also against the Patriot act that let the NSA steal our data and spy on us. He doesn't want a wall he wants efficient border control

@@_bob9740 He wants more illegal immigration/refugees. He has never said anything about increasing legal immigration.

_ Bob because the wall isn’t effective...

r/yesyesyesno

coolgamer87 3 Well, he sure doesn’t believe that any more with “medicare for illegal immigrants”

Exactly 😂

Americans are not for illegal immigration

Still the same. He believes that the illegal immigrants already here should have citizenship then and now. Besides his popularity has been increasing in the past couple of years.

@@hnys7976 he got 43 percent in the 2016 primary, in 2020 he got 23 percent. In 2016 he focused way more on economics and barely touched social issues, this time he tried to pick up minorities by focusing on social issues but ultimately did worse in working class areas he won last time such as michigan and west virginia

@@iyoutubeperson4336 He still talks way more about economic issues.

@@hnys7976 except that he touched on it less in 2020 than on 2016

He didn't go woke, and that's why he lost the nomination; because every single Demorat was working against him

the crusader bernie is still against open borders

He's using the same right wing arguments we always here. "Dont bring in more immigrants, give jobs To the unepmloyed youth here ". Sounds pretty right wing To me. Open borders should be a part of any socialists program and bernie obviously is not a socialist.

@@danielhyman3396 EU freedom of movement is very much right-wing. Oddly it's left-wingers who support it as they see any resistance to it as an excuse to call someone racist or xenophobic.

@Grand Rabbi Moshesteinbergshekelwitz if people wanna work or need opportunity let them come. Its one planet, we're all people. We should be allowed to go wherever we want to or need to.

@Grand Rabbi Moshesteinbergshekelwitz Because it's better for a company to have someone who can do the job instead of having someone who is unskilled for that job.

@@danielhyman3396 Absolute waffle, Daniel. Open borders is a right-libertarian/anarchist policy.

@Elias Håkansson No it isn't because children in school in the US will have the opportunity to go in almost any job given their work & ability. Someone Forcing Entry & Settlement into the US is far more likely to seek a low wage job and push the wages down for the US workers. That disproportionately effects PoC. Automation does it even more. But even with Yang's proposal for the Freedom Dividend, he is against Open Borders because otherwise millions & millions of poor would come to the US seeking money, and you would be overwhelmed.

I ve grown up around Mexicans my whole life. Some actually put in the work and become citizens abd and learn the language. They adapt. But theres groups of them who don't want citizenships and rather ride the system and remain illegal. Facts.

@@libertarianheretic412 I went to college and they rather hire a bilingual with no college education over me. Explain that one.

​@@insaneone4369DEI it's been around for a little while now.

he is weighing options tbw

I support open borders.... In China and Israel.

Another interpretation is that he knows he’ll never win while being so far outside the Overton window. He has to compromise on a few issues

He's completely flip-flopped on this issue. Now he's for open borders! Someone needs to confront him on this.

@@christophekeating21 no he's NOT

It would have to not be a corrupt leadership to work. They never ask what the public wants as to how to do things the right way. What ever happened to of the people, by the people, and fro the people? The hole that is being created by our corrupt leaders will be impossible to climb out to any kind of livable ways for the common people.

Of course the nation state is. Just to question that is nearly treasonable idea in itself!!!

as a r/stupidpol redditor I aprove

That tends to happen when you actually listen to him speak lol

​@@garshtoshteleshe's sold out in order to fit in with neoliberals.

We should lock up those Marxists and woke people. Stick em in jail like Joe McCarthy did. Bring back the Red Scare, COINTELPRO, and Operation Mockingbird. Freedumb.

Bernie doesnt mind who immigrates, as long as there is some kind of limit on the amount and how easy it is. Trump doesnt want Muslims to immigrate and wants to build a border wall.

***** Well theyve stopped because net mexican immigration is down. More people are moving back out than are moving in

They aren't. Both are freedom hating statists.

How? When did Bernie Sanders ever propose an idea that disregards civil liberties? If you actually do your background research on him, you'll know he never did, and he always been a vocal opponent of spying and the PATRIOT Act. Bernie just believes in everyone working together and a pro-people government. Hillary and Trump disregard the first amendment and believe in mass surveillance. Trump also believes the government can seize property at any time and believes in opening libel laws.

Umm didn't Trump speak out against political correctness, the driving force that is destroying the 1st Amendment?

jgonzalez Don’t fall for his Jew tricks.

Immigration isn't a binary issue. Sanders has a sensible, moderate position on it. Like most of the population.

actually, if you raise minimum wage to 15$ an hour,you will end corporate welfare scheme called cheap immigrant labour. people in US are themselves willing to work fot 15$ an hour, it is hispanics that are willing to slave for less and rely on welfare.

@@user-hs4dm9xq5e lol no you won't people will still come here illegally, our government is a joke on that issue

Right! Because we have infinite resources! So much that we can't even help our own homeless, our own Vets, and our OWN struggling minorities!

He too old he got woke and now he support open borders.

Hes been woke his entire career you fool.

@@Evili555 there isn’t one politician in DC who supports open borders

He holds the same position to this day

@@RollerBear123 No he doesn't though, he would never say what he did here today.

if he does why did he raise his hand during the last debate when all the candidates were asked if they support open borders and free healthcare to illegal immigrants

And that's why the Dems are going to lose the election. Not just because of this one issue, but because they have embraced the far left platform as a United front and left majority of the voters behind. Shame.

@@DrLimbic Bet.

he was never cool and I also didn't expect much integrity from someone who has not worked an honest job in his life and preaches socialism and fight the power while owning 3 houses and what but remember kids "FIGHT THE POWER" (does not include government power)

@Digitalcatcher "senator honest job" the delusion

Much simpler, enforce the law. If you don't at least have a green card, you cannot work in the U.S., period. You can be a tourist, you can't take a job. The IRS knows who is working illegally in the U.S. by the duplicate and phony social security numbers. Heavy fines for those who employ illegals would work much better than a wall; most illegal immigrants arrive legally on a tourist visa and then just stick around after it expires.

ozeal D. Bernie opposes the wall

Christian Welbrecht And that is why Bernie in not President. His logic is flawed.

Spurious Effect If we build a wall, daca people will BECOME LEGAL. If I was a dreamer I would be FOR THE WALL

How many time do we have to say this most people just fly to the US and overstay their visa's.

A Jewish NatSoc. 😂

This is exactly what I was thinking.

Don’t believe his Jewish lies though. He doesn’t want to abolish ICE to keep people out. He wants ICE to keep people IN.

@@actanonverba3041 Real national socialism has never been tried.

no, a left liberal nationalist. The sort of people who built Denmark.

What a general comment. You are writing off millions of marginalized young individuals.

@@erica.antisell8886 I am going by experience online, being name-called "Boomer" and worse by young people who have no clue about the intricacies of politics even though they have the Super Information Highway at their fingertips. Perfect example is this young man interviewing Bernie, he is clueless about the real world, in fact he represents what we called "the establishment" back in the day, smh

Strange how there are always billions and billions of dollars to spend on war, no problem AT ALL, but stuff like health care, education, infrastructure, a OMG!!!!! HALP, HALP, THE US WILL GO BANKRUPT!!! And even more strange that there is NEVER a problem with CEOs getting millions of dollars in raises and bonuses, but giving the workers just a couple of dollars more an hour will OMG!!!! BANKRUPT EVERY BUSINESS, BANKRUPT US ALL, HALP, HALP!!! Hahaha.-

When you raise the wage of workers, what do you think they will do with that money, horde it in their matresses or go out and spend it creating more jobs?

​@@hashaborgonjathey'll price gouge us because the wages are up. Until they find a way to replace us with robots. That's pretty easy to understand.

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When did he abandon it? Link?

Bernie is a white supremacist. He literally wanted to send nuclear waste from his white state to a poor brown texas town.

Tell that Dementia Joe

What? Donald trump said that people coming across the border were rapists and criminals It has nothing to do with what Bernie said

Donald Trump is an idiot that has no idea what he's talking about.

***** I didn't know any idiot can be a billionaire

Sean Anthony Ha ha ha!

Matt M. His words got taken out of context by the liberal media, he was saying that the Mexican government has an unemployment problem and that they encourage their unemployed people and people who are in jails there to move to the US since we give them so many free benefits. That is 100% correct. It's a serious problem and if you choose to ignore it you're part of the problem. Our country doesn't have the money to support an open border unfortunately. Remember that Trump the next day himself said that he has no hate toward Latino individuals, he was just making a point about the policies of the Mexican government. But of course, you're never going to hear that reported in the liberal news.

BUT he competely flipped on this..

@@YEC999 That's the whole point.

@@mybldyvlntn uh no, he did not. he is completely consistent with this and every other issue.

@@danceonyourtoes lol, good one.

@@danceonyourtoes he legit said open borders now

he never sold you, you're just immature

@@gerard1657 - when was the last time he spoke out against open borders?

The Koch brothers and numerous people on the libertarian "right" (if you consider capitalist right wing) are for open borders, and have been for a while. This is why Trump and Bannon use the word "globalist", because it's not just leftists pushing for open borders. The Koch brothers are globalists, and on the issue of immigration they are no different from Soros.

The Koch brothers aren’t right wing, they support any side that benefits them

@@bernkbestgirl Actually, there's an important difference between globalism and globalization. Libertarians support globalization, the tearing down of barriers that stifle trade and immigration and free movement. Globalism on the other hand is a movement toward planning the economy and laws on a global basis instead of a country by country basis (if I understand right). Even libertarians mix the terms up sometimes. And libertarians, despite what some people try to claim aren't really right or left wing. I don't know much about the Koch brothers.

@@bernkbestgirlSoros is LEFT wing

I know quite a few USA hating people they can take. Hahahaha. Please come get them now !!!!!

"oy vey"

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Yes, that true the ones that are already here but if people in mass migration come to the united states it would create lower wages and undermine the American worker.

+CoreyStudios2000 Is that a bad thing? Only neoliberal businessmen want open borders and high levels of immigration. You cannot support mass immigration and a welfare state and increasing wages at the same time.

+James Line Oh no, not the welfare, we need to protect it. Fuck those who just want to work and get a better life.

Deyvisson Bruno It hurts working people as well which is what i said. All civilized countries have some sort of welfare state. Only primitive third world countries have no welfare state. People will not be able to work and get a better life if we have open borders.

Deyvisson Bruno Furthermore the economy is not separated into those who want to work and those who don't.

+James Line If you eliminate or shrink the welfare state, individuals who don't want to work won't be a problem and why would people be unable to get a job and improve their lifes? If they leave their countries and their families to come to USA it's because America offers better conditions to them. It's an axiom.

Only citizens can vote. You need a social security number.

@@abram730Aren’t the children of these immigrants that would be born once they come over here citizens by birth

How?

He changed his position on immigration, he’s pretty much open borders now too

@@notayoutuber1856 Figures. I suppose I shouldn't have expected this stance to last.

@@notayoutuber1856 no he's not lol

Nazbol Bernie was best Bernie.

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i admire his senility, quite prominent in america these days

Mike G that’s unfortunately true 😕

the big businesses all love immigrants, especially one thats wont ask for raises under threat of deportation

askmiller Wow, literally every single one of your opinions is contradicted by empirically proven facts. Please do not vote.

Meep Changeling and ladies and gentlemen: this is what you call that guy who doesn't want to make friends in his life. Go back under your rock please.

askmiller When they say kids are living in poverty, it means that their entire household is in poverty. Same goes for anyone else. Poverty and wealth are defined by household, not individuals.

Kiet Gaojiang Thank's for the clarification.