Bernie Sanders hires illegal immigrant to be press secretary
Sen. Bernie
Sanders' new deputy national press secretary likely won't be eligible to
vote in the 2020 election due to what she says is her status as an
undocumented immigrant.
The hiring of Belen Sisa, an Arizona leftist activist, was
announced Wednesday evening. Sisa, who says she was brought to this
country illegally from Argentina by her parents at age six, is currently
protected from deportation under President Barack Obama's Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program.
Despite her immigration status, Sisa has remained active in
liberal politics over the years. In 2016, she worked as a page to the
Arizona delegation at the Democratic National Convention and in Latino
outreach for Sanders' 2016 campaign.
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