Bernie Sanders On Immigration

system in two thousand and seven my Senate office learn about a crisis occurring with

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

you know were a motley is right alright 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 of two thousand and eight I

subjected to abuse of labor practices the injustices of the lives of the workers was

overall well in 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

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

my good friend the late senator Ted Ken at that hearing we heard the voices of immaculate

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

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 but

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 and to understand that it is not only the

undocumented workers who suffer but every worker in America because

that pushes us into a race to the bottom