Dem 2020 Candidate States We Should Give 11 Million Illegal Immigrants Visas ‘Immediately,’ Report Says

By Hank Berrien

On Friday, former Colorado governor and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate John Hickenlooper, who is barely registering in the polls, said that the 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. should be given 10-year visas “immediately.”

As The Washington Free Beacon reports, Hickenlooper was speaking at Telemundo’s presidential candidate forum in Miami when the moderator asked, “What would be your plan for the 11 million undocumented immigrants that are right here in the country. Would you give them a path to citizenship?”

The Free Beacon reported that Hickenlooper first digressed by discussing a 2014 Wall Street Journal interview as the moderator pointed out that Hickenlooper has abandoned his 2014 assertion and 2016 reiteration that citizenship wasn’t a priority for illegal immigrants.

Hickenlooper stated, “I was talking about—when I talked to the Wall Street Journal about trying to find a way that the undocumented people in this country could go back and forth immediately and visit their families. What I would say with the 11 million people that are here now is that we should give them a 10-year visa immediately, put them on a pathway to citizenship and make sure that if it takes longer they can have extensions. What I was trying to say at that time was the priority should be allow people to come out from the shadows.”.

Queried as to whether he believed that illegal immigrants should have a pathway to citizenship, Hickenlooper answered, “Yes, of course. No, no I was saying the priority needs to be able to let them have freedom to actually work and to travel, but yes, absolutely everyone deserves a pathway to citizenship.”

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