Sanders touched on his immigrant roots and talked about his father coming to the United States from Poland. O’Malley uttered the phrase “path to citizenship.” But these passing mentions do not add up to a substantive policy discussion. As many immigration reporters and activists noted, ABC News could have skipped the “first spouse” softball and gone for an in-depth question on comprehensive immigration reform.
A few things we didn't hear about but wanted to: reproductive health care, immigration, LGBT rights, fair access to education.
— Hillary Frey (@hilella) December 20, 2015So both Sanders and O'Malley mention immigration reform in closing statements, but debate did not include immigration. #demdebate
— Julio Ricardo Varela (@julito77) December 20, 2015.@ABC entirely left out immigration from #DemDebate a hugely important issue in the GOP debate last week. But we got to hear about WH china!
— Adrian Carrasquillo (@Carrasquillo) December 20, 2015