we ve lost as a nation because of donald trump. the fact that we can recover our balance and we can move forward and once again start building for the future. we can t be the first generation of americans to leave less opportunity not more of people coming after us and i think that is what is at take. when you make claims, political claims that sound great and you can t deliver, to me that is just more politics. another hot-button issue, immigration. where do you differ with the other candidates? i was the only one that didn t put their hand up last week with the last debate for open borders and maybe that is because i was part of the gang of eight that wrote the immigration bill in 2013. that bill with john mccain, that bill had a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million people here. it had the most progressive dream act ever conceived but also had $46 billion of border security. 21st century security and not a wall. that should be our position.
we should mobilize the entire rest of the world who all have a shared interest in pushing back on the trade policies and i think we can do that. i would like to answer the other question before this as well. when i see these kids at the border, i see my mom because i know she sees herself. she was separated from her parents for years during the holocaust in poland. for donald trump to be doing what he is doing to children and their families at the border and i say this as someone who wrote the immigration bill in 2013 and created a pathway to citizenship for 11 million people in this country and had the most progressive dream act that ever has been conceived, much less passed. that got 68 votes in the senate. that had $46 billion of border security that was sophisticated 21st century border security, not a medieval wall and the president has turned the border of the united states into a
the senator from colorado, right, he suffers from as i mentioned being one of two colorado democrats in the race who doesn t have a big pre-existing national profile, and he s one of seven democratic senators who s in contention for the nomination, and so he, you know, blends in, but then on stage he opens his mouth, and he tells this story of his own family and what donald trump has turned the u.s. border into in the eyes of the world, and senator bennet just nails it. watch this. when i see these kids at the border, i see my mom because i know she sees herself because she was separated from her parents for years during the holocaust in poland, and for donald trump to be doing what he s doing to children and their families at the borders, i say this as somebody who wrote the immigration bill in 2013 that created a pathway to citizenship for 11 million people in this country that had the most progressive dream act that s ever been conceived much less
also worked with them to oppose bussing. there was a little girl in california who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bussed to school every day. that little girl was me. so i will tell you that on this subject it cannot be an intellectual debate among democrats. we have to take it seriously and act swiftly. as attorney general of california, i was proud to put in place a requirement that all my special agents would wear body cam ares and keep those cameras on. that swivel of vice president biden s head when she said that little girl was me, him and everybody else in that room looked to see the new front-runner in the race in terms of who was on that stage that night. i can t say more about it than had been said already, but it
border, i see my mom because i know she sees herself. she was separated from her parents for years during the holocaust in poland. for donald trump to be doing what he s doing to children and their families at the border, i say this as someone who wrote the immigration bill that created a pathway to citizenship for 11 million people in this country that had the most progressive dream act that has ever been conceived and 68 votes in the senate that had $46 billion of border security that was sophisticated 21st century border security, not a medieval wall and the president turned the border of the united states into a symbol of nativist hostility that the world is looking at when what we should be represented by is the statue of liberty that brought my parents to this country to begin with. we need to make a change. to have hit the emotional core at the end while he is being wrapped and to still hit