Bernie Sanders: Illegal immigrants ‘reviled by many for political gain’

Published June 20, 2015 1:15am ET



Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders took a strong stand on immigration in a speech to Latino officials in Nevada Friday.

Although he hasn’t spent much time on immigration since jumping into the 2016 Democratic presidential race, Sanders praised the Obama program deferring the deportation of young illegal immigrants as a good first step that should be built upon.

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