Sanders said he would fight to keep families together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I am shocked by the fear and shocked by the sadness that grips so many of them,” Sanders said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A group of people who identified themselves as U.S. military veterans stand in Mexico looking through the border fence as presidential candidate Bernie Sanders made a visit to the border on March 19 in Nogales, Ariz.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photo Credit: Astrid Galvan\/AP<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Vermont senator has focused his campaign almost exclusively on Arizona in the past week as he looks to rebound from his resounding defeat last week to Clinton. He drew a crowd of about 7,000 people in Tucson and followed that up with a visit to the Navajo Nation in what marks a rare visit by a White House candidate to the nation’s largest Indian reservation. His pursuit of the Native American vote included a visit by his wife to a sacred Apache site near the site of a proposed copper mine that Sanders and tribes strenuously oppose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Late Saturday he held his fourth Arizona rally in the past five days, this time just outside of downtown Phoenix. Sanders is hoping for a win in Tuesday’s Arizona primary to propel him through the next month when several states more favorable for him are due to vote. “Please, on Tuesday, make sure that you, your friends, your family come out to vote,” he told the crowd. “Let us see Arizona help lead a political revolution.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n He has also sought the Latino vote in Arizona, aggressively challenging Arizona’s contentious Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who has endorsed Trump, in a speech for his harsh immigration tactics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “It’s easy for bullies like Sheriff Arpaio to pick on people who have no power,” Sanders said. “If I am elected president \u2014 the president of the United States does have power. So watch out, Joe.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Clinton is making her own last-minute push to win Arizona. Former President Bill Clinton is campaigning for his wife in the state on Sunday, and the former first lady and secretary of state has a rally Monday. She is running ads showing former Rep. Gabby Giffords voice her support for the candidate. She also has the support of most of the Democratic political establishment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Standing in front of the tall, steel fence that divides the United States and Mexico, presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders on Saturday vowed to keep immigrant families together during a visit to Arizona, which holds its primary next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":101959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":16,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3112],"class_list":["post-65363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"HSNGM34IJFEEFAQ3K5QGK6XL2E","arc_canonical_url":"\/news\/2016\/03\/20\/bernie-sanders-visits-u-s-mexico-border-talks-immigration-reform\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/635940808213056108-dem-2016-sanders-weigjpg.jpg\")