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Bernie Sanders: "Open borders? That's a Koch brothers proposal"

Vox · 410K views · 2015-07-29 · 3:52

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A short clip of Bernie Sanders in conversation with Ezra Klein of Vox, where he rejects open borders as a proposal that serves the Koch brothers. It is an excerpt from a longer interview on global poverty.

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HN commenters cite it in immigration debates as evidence of Sanders' 2015 position that open borders and high immigration hurt wages.

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slowhadoken · 2026-01 · Reference

@Starman Noam Chomsky is far left and Bernie Sanders is also more liberal than a Democrat. Here is Sanders saying the same thing I did [VIDEO]

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slowhadoken · 2026-01 · Reference

Noam Chomsky is far left and Bernie Sanders is also more liberal than a Democrat. Here is Sanders saying the same thing I did [VIDEO] I’m confused, what do you think a liberal is?

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AlexandrB · 2025-09 · Reference

This is basically 100% backwards. In Canada it's large corporate lobbies pushing for more immigration. Why? Because it lets them keep wages low and makes unionization impossible. See also, Bernie 10 years ago: [VIDEO] I don't know at what point people were convinced that the push against immigration is some kind of billionaire plot, but is has been great cover for said billionaires.

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