Bernie Sanders Rails Against Trump Admin For ‘Rounding Up’ And Deporting ‘Innocent People’

At a "Fight Oligarchy" event in Folsom on Tuesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spoke about recent ICE deportations mandated by President Trump.

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00:00Well brothers and sisters, it is not just oligarchy that we are fighting.

00:08We are fighting a president who undermines our Constitution every single day

00:16and threatens our freedom of speech and freedom of assembly.

00:21We are fighting a president whose agents are rounding up innocent people

00:29off the streets, throwing them into unmarked vans, and sending them to detention centers

00:44here in the United States in El Salvador and elsewhere.

00:52That is not what happens in a democracy, that's what happens in a dictatorship.

01:01And together we are not going to allow Donald Trump to create an authoritarian society.

01:11You know, the founding fathers of our country were not dummies.

01:23They had just fought a war against the British Empire and defeated the most powerful person

01:31on earth at that time, the King of England.

01:34And they sat around and they said, you know what, as we develop our new country,

01:40this is in the 1790s, what they were saying is we do not want to give one person unlimited power.

01:47And they developed a separation of powers.

01:50We got an executive, a legislative branch, and a judiciary to keep check on each other.

01:59And every single day, you got a president who wants more and more power for himself.

02:13He is usurping the power of the Congress.

02:18He is now challenging in an unprecedented way the role of the judiciary in America.

02:26The Supreme Court recently ruled in a nine-to-nothing decision that a man who was illegally picked

02:37off the street and sent to El Salvador has got to be returned.

02:41A nine-to-nothing decision of the Supreme Court.

02:48Mr. President, obey the law.

02:59But it is not just Congress and the judiciary whose power he is trying to assume.

03:05It is the media as well.

03:07Apparently, he does not understand that in America we have freedom of speech.

03:13He has sued ABC, CBS, Meta, the Des Moines Register.

03:26His FCC is now investigating NPR and PBS.

03:35Just the other day, he said that CBS should lose its license.

03:40You know what they did?

03:42They ran a program which was critical of some of his policies.

03:47How terrible.

03:48And this is from a guy who has spent his entire political career attacking people, lying about

03:57people in the most vicious ways.

04:00So we say to Trump, if you can't take criticism, get out of politics.

04:16This is a democracy and criticism and freedom of speech is what it's all about.

04:23This is what it's all about.

04:24This is what it's all about.

04:25This is what it's all about.