Who's coming in and getting that instant customer service legal immigrants don't get? Well, people like Mirian Zelaya Gomez, a single mom with two kids and a fondness for Instagram luxury-life glamour shots who got her name in the news as "Lady Frijoles," the Honduran caravan migrant who disdained donated Mexican food in Tijuana, and who told the press she was migrating to the states to get free medical care for her kids. She's since been arrested for assaulting a relative who had given her housing in Dallas. Here she was, being booked:
Bernie Sanders Admits He’s a Millionaire, Will Release Tax Returns Next Week
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2020 presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said in a recent interview that lucrative book sales made him a millionaire, and he will release his tax returns next Monday.
“On the day in the very immediate future, certainly before April 15, we release ours, I hope that Donald Trump will do exactly the same,” Sanders told the New York Times.
“We are going to release 10 years of our tax returns, and we hope that on that day Donald Trump will do the same,” he added.
The 77-year-old democratic-socialist also acknowledged his cushy financial situation, pointing to his New York Times best-seller Where We Go From Here, published in November 2018, as the reason for his 1 percenter status.
“I wrote a best-selling book. If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too,” he quipped.
In an interview last week, Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir said the senator and his wife, Jane, wanted to finish their 2018 taxes first before releasing their returns. The Timesreported Sanders’ 2017 Senate financial disclosure forms show he raked in around $1.06 million that year. The Vermont lawmaker owns three houses, one of which he purchased in 2016 for $575,000. The four-bedroom lake-front property in North Hero, Vermont, boasts 500 feet of Lake Champlain beachfront, according to newspaper Seven Days. Sanders also owns homes in Burlington, Vermont, and Washington, D.C.
During his first presidential bid, Sanders endured questioning by Hillary Clinton over why he had not released several years of his tax returns and had instead opted to release just his 2014 tax returns.
Several of Sanders’ rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination have already released their 2018 tax returns. Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) have all released their own returns.
Several of Sanders’ rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination have already released their 2018 tax returns. Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) have all released their own returns.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Bernie at Iowa Town Hall on Open Borders: ‘Can’t Do It’
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Presidential hopeful and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said at a town hall in Oskaloosa, Iowa, over the weekend that the United States cannot have open borders.
Sanders made the remarks after someone attending the town hall described him as an “open borders advocate.”
“I’m afraid you may be getting your information wrong,” Sanders said. “That’s not my view,”
“I’m afraid you may be getting your information wrong,” Sanders said. “That’s not my view,”
“What we need is comprehensive immigration reform,” Sanders said. “If you open the borders, my God, there’s a lot of poverty in this world, and you’re going to have people from all over the world.”
“And I don’t think that’s something that we can do at this point,” said Sanders, who does support free college tuition and universal health care.
“Can’t do it,” Sanders said. “So that is not my position.”
There is no information about Sanders’ position on immigration on his berniesanders.comwebsite, but the feelthebern.org website supporting the candidate said:
Bernie Sanders has said that we are a “nation of immigrants. That is, in fact, the strength of America.” Given this view, he believes the United States must create an immigration system that invites greater innovation, diversity, and economic opportunity for both American-born citizens and the people who want to make this land their home. Bernie supports immigration reform that will address the legal status of the 11 million undocumented people in our country, protect American jobs by way of visa reform, secure the border, and protect undocumented workers from labor exploitation.
The website states that Sanders supports a pathway to citizenship for all people who are in the United States illegally, the Dream Act, “Visa reform” and border security “without building a fence.”
Sanders also voted for the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill in 2013 that would have given amnesty to all of the people in the United States illegally.
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