On the subject of illegal immigration, CNN's debate went left with debate panelist Juan Carlos Lopez hitting Bernie Sanders for not being liberal enough. Lopez demanded, “Senator Sanders, in 2013 you voted for immigration reform. But in 2007 when the Democrats controlled Congress and the Bush White House was on board, you voted against it.”
He then attacked the senator: “Why should Latino voters trust you now when you left them at the altar at the moment when reform was very close?” Following up, Lopez grilled Clinton: “Secretary Clinton, Governor O'Malley wants to open up ObamaCare to millions of undocumented immigrants and their children, including almost 90,000 people right here in Nevada. Do you?”
Earlier, CNN’s Dana Bash wondered if Americans could simply forgive Hillary Clinton’s Iraq vote.
At another point, Bernie Sanders bizarrely attacked the media for talking too much about Clinton’s e-mails.
A transcript of the questions is below:
CNN Debate
10/13/15
10:13ANDERSON COOPER: I want to bring it over to Juan Carlos Lopez from CNN en Espanol. We’re obviously in Nevada. It has the highest percentage of undocumented immigrants of any state in the country as of last year. Juan Carlos?
JUAN CARLOS LOPEZ: Gracias, Anderson. Senator Sanders, in 2013 you voted for immigration reform. But in 2007 when the Democrats controlled Congress and the Bush White House was on board, you voted against it. Why should Latino voters trust you now when you left them at the altar at the moment when reform was very close?
BERNIE SANDERS: I didn’t leave anybody at the alter. I voted against that piece of legislation because it had guest worker provisions in it, which the Southern Poverty Law Center talked about being semi-slavery.
...LOPEZ: Secretary Clinton, Governor O'Malley wants to open up ObamaCare to millions of undocumented immigrants and their children, including almost 90,000 people right here in Nevada. Do you?
