Julian Castro in CBS "Face the Nation" interviews during 2019
On Immigration:
Always for secure border and apprehending criminals
Q: When you were mayor of San Antonio you called for increased border security measures and praised the Obama administration's actions.
Why did you praise that policy but when the Trump administration adopts similar language and policies, you're hypercritical of them?
CASTRO: I talked about people who committed serious crimes, dangerous criminals. If there are people who have committed serious felonies in the United States who are immigrants or who come to the border, I have always consistently said that those
people should be apprehended, that they should be deported. I haven't changed that at all. I don't have an issue with maintaining a secure border. What I have an issue with is separating little children from their parents.
Source: CBS Face the Nation interviews in 2019
Jul 28, 2019
On Corporations:
Top earners & corporations must pay fair share
I think it's going to take asking wealthier individuals to pay their fair share. We've had basically the last forty years essentially of lower and lower commitment on people at the very top. Same thing goes for corporations. We have multinational
corporations that are hardly paying anything in federal taxes. We need to ask them to pay their fair share. I think that we can consider different ways, different proposals, to be able to raise more revenue from, you know, the wealthiest corporations.
Source: CBS Face the Nation 2019 interviews: 2020 Democratic primary
Jan 13, 2019
On Immigration:
Compassion for refugees, pathway for those here
This policy of separating children from their parents and the terrible way that Customs and Border Protection has managed its responsibilities, including the deaths of two children within the last few weeks.
That's a real tragedy.
I don't believe that we should have family detention for people that are seeking asylum or refugee status, so that we should develop other ways to ensure that people are processed, that we're able to keep track of them in the country.
I would make sure that we push as hard as possible for comprehensive immigration reform so that for the people who are already here, if they've been law abiding, if they pay a fine, that they can get an earned path to citizenship.
Source: CBS Face the Nation 2019 interviews: 2020 Democratic primary
Jan 13, 2019
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