PBS Democratic Debate: Live Coverage

Sanders is definitely right about the disappearance of manufacturing jobs, and of the erosion of wages in those jobs. And he is likely right that global competition has played a significant role in that decline. Whether trade has been bad for less-educated workers overall is a harder question. Economists broadly agree that trade, like immigration, is good for the economy as a whole. But a policy that helps the economy can still be bad for individual workers.

Sanders is far from the only prominent Democrat who disagrees with the Obama administration’s deportation of immigrants.

Bernie Sanders said that if necessary, he would use executive action to create a path to citizenship. If so, he’d follow a long line of presidents — President Obama included — who have used executive action on immigration.