Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders revealed this week that his first executive orders if elected president will be to “reverse” everything President Trump has done to “harm immigrants.”
“My first executive orders will be to reverse every single thing President Trump has done to demonize and harm immigrants, including his racist and disgusting Muslim ban,” the 2020 hopeful tweeted this week.
My first executive orders will be to reverse every single thing President Trump has done to demonize and harm immigrants, including his racist and disgusting Muslim ban.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) January 27, 2020
The tweet, which received over 18,000 retweets, came shortly after the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to proceed with new rules that make it easier to prevent immigrants from attaining residency status if they require public benefits.
Sanders, 78, has been a consistent critic of Trump’s immigration policies and released an immigration plan in November that offers several significant departures from the administration’s platform, including breaking up Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“President Trump has turned Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) into a renegade detention and deportation force,” the Sanders campaign website reads. “Immigration is not a threat to national security. It is long past time we break up the Department of Homeland Security and refocus its mission on keeping our country safe and responding effectively to emergencies.”
The Sanders campaign has been surging in Iowa as of late, and a poll earlier this month showed the Vermont senator in first place. Sanders is also polling well ahead of all his opponents in the key primary state of New Hampshire.
