Candidate O'Rourke joins protest aimed at treatment of immigrants

[TexasTowelie]

PETERBOROUGH, N.H. — A rally Friday night protesting the detention of migrants was followed with a visit by Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke, who has made immigration a focus of his campaign.

O’Rourke, a former congressman from El Paso, Texas, told the crowd gathered in Putnam Park about meeting a family of asylum seekers in Juarez, Mexico. The family had fled El Salvador after being threatened by a gang.

“So doing what any human being would do in the same set of conditions,” O’Rourke said, “what Amy, my wife, and I would do if it were the only way to save our kids, that family made that journey, by foot, sometimes in a bus, sometimes atop — not inside — of a train.”

After crossing the desert in blistering heat for six hours and crossing the Rio Grande, according to O’Rourke, the family turned themselves in to U.S. immigration authorities, seeking asylum. He said they were taken to a border patrol station, put in a freezing cell and then returned to Mexico after three days, where they are to remain pending the outcome of their asylum claim, under a Trump administration policy.

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(Keene Sentinel)

[ucrdem]

1. He's good on this issue.

So far my preferences have been: Biden-Booker, Biden-Beto, Biden-Harris, and now I'm back to Biden-Beto as our best hope for 2020.

[Funtatlaguy]

2. Two white males would enrage our progressive base. Won't happen.

[TexasTowelie]

3. That's regretful.

The Democratic party should be putting the best candidates that can both work together and also win the election.

[ucrdem]

4. Well,it's worked before

and we've seen 2 male-female tickets fail: Mondale-Ferraro and Clinton-Kaine. And then there's McCain-Palin. So the progressives might have to wait for the next time around. It wouldn't surprise me a bit of Biden were to get the nom and offer Harris #2 but I don't think she'd take it.