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Bernie Sanders: “The vast majority of those people work hard and obey…”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Sen. Bernie Sanders | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #635

Published | Video Starts at 1:11:08

Okay, that's number one. Number two, we have between 10 and 14 million undocumented people in this country right now. No one knows exactly. Yeah. All right. But The vast majority of those people work hard and obey American law. Right now, during COVID by the way, those were the people who were working in the meatpacking plants. Those are the people who got a lot of the virus. (1:11:08–1:11:16)

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Asserts that most undocumented people in the U.S. are law-abiding and hardworking.

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