During his October rally in Queens, the biggest rally of any candidate in the race to date,

Bernie Sanders memorably asked the crowd.

I want you all to take a look around and find someone you don't know. Are you willing to fight

for that person who you don't even know as much as you're willing to fight for yourself.

That call to solidarity has resonated broadly, perhaps because many of us seem to intrinsically understand that without

solidarity the diffuse interests of diverse groups of Americans have limited political leverage. In other words, we are much

stronger when we stand together. Not me, us. Perhaps nowhere is the need for solidarity greater than in the context of immigration.

You see, non-citizens are already vulnerable,

with limited rights under the law and for decades the notion of

scarcity has been used to discourage the spirit of hospitality the Lady

Liberty's famous inscription claims to represent.

Anti-immigrant fear-mongering should never be accepted, ever.

But the sad reality is, it becomes more persuasive to voters when they feel like they're fighting a zero-sum game

when half of Americans are living a paycheck to paycheck.

Life expectancy has gone down for the first time

in American history and mine is the first generation expected to do worse than our

parents.

As a result, politicians often lean into the idea of a conflict of interest

between low-income Americans and immigrants, promising to protect one group at the expense of the other.

We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our products, stealing our companies, and destroying our jobs.

They took our jobs!

Yeah, they're down, they're down!

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