Bernie Sanders On Immigration

let me tell you that I have seen first hand the impact of our broken immigration

migrant laborers in the tomato fields of a motley Florida Eddie folks from Florida here alright

you know were a motley is right are the unlikely workers and these all the workers were the work he

picked the tomatoes that you get on your hamburger at Burger King and McDonald's these

workers war fighting desperately to increase their paltry wages and get that

out working conditions for the back breaking work that they perform in January two thousand and eight I

went to a motley and I looked at the situation all armed with a letter of support signed by three of my colleagues senator Victor

Herbert Sherrod brown and the late Ted Kennedy what I discovered was a human tragic

overflowing well it fact and this is true just it just so happy that on the day that I was there in

a mock on that day soon men were indicted for human slavery for forcing workers

to engage in involuntary late that's how bad the situation was slavery

in the twenty first century in the fields of a mockery in the United States of America my visit after book beta fields was followed while

you're hearing of the Senate help education labor committee on which our site and schools and which was not shared by

my good friend the late senator Ted Ken at that hearing we heard the voices of him Lockley workers

who are at the root lowest rung all of the economic ladder workers who had no

rights because if they stood up for their rights they could be arrested and

deported now I am happy to tell you that that particular story had a positive and the campaign by the a mockery workers resulted in

substantial reforms in the tomato fields of Florida and in the aggregate workers there have

seen their wages increase by millions of dollars and they have seats significant improvements in

their working conditions but how many more in mock lease author how many fields or factories all the where

people often without legal status I used all and throw it away we cannot continue

to run an economy where millions on they so vulnerable because of their undocumented status

we have to ask ourselves who benefits from this exploitation and so I understand that

America because that pushes us into a race to the bottom