Bernie Sanders holds campaign office opening rally in Coachella

Sam Metz and Ricardo Lopez, Palm Springs Desert Sun
Updated 6:06 p.m. PT Dec. 16, 2019

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Sanders has opened a campaign office in Coachella, and he addressed hundreds of supporters in front of the building, which labor activist Cesar Chavez once rented while organizing for the United Farmworkers of America.

"At the very top of our list is the need for comprehensive immigration reform and a path toward citizenship," Sanders told the crowd. "On Day 1, we will repeal all of Trump's racist immigration executive orders and on Day 1, we will have an executive order that reestablishes the legal rights for 1.8 million young people and their parents in the DACA program."

Coachella Mayor Steve Hernandez called Sanders "a driver of change who dares to speak up and act against the status quo."

"Tio Bernie, as we refer to him in Coachella, knows that it's time to create a new chapter in America," he said.

Dolores Vega, a 22-year-old Coachella resident who lives down the street from Sanders' new office, said Sanders' priorities resonated widely in the eastern Coachella Valley, which is majority Latino.



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