WASHINGTON: It was the neighboring Senator Bernie Sanders had come to receiving heckled during his trip to Iowa. As Sanders was leave-taking a town hall meeting in Marshalltown, Iowa, Isaac Medina, a 19-year-old University of Iowa sophomore, followed the Democratic presidential candidate out of the building with a question he hadn’t been able to ask for the duration of the question-and-answer session: What was Sanders going to do about immigration?
Marshalltown has a sizable Hispanic population 24.1 percent compared to the statewide average of 5 percent, according to the 2010 census and has seen immigration raids tear families apart. Yet Sanders had held his event at the local chapter of the United Automobile Workers, signaling his ties to unions without focusing on immigration policy changes during his abbreviated stump speech Medina had noticed, and the two had a brief conversation outside. Sanders said he supports comprehensive immigration reform and bringing people out of the shadows.
