Sen. Bernie Sanders: Shutting down government ‘the right thing to do’

Sen. Bernard Sanders said Sunday shutting down the government was “the right thing to do” in order to take a stand on what will happen to young illegal immigrant “Dreamers” in the ongoing immigration debate.

“I think from a moral perspective it was the right thing to do. And that is to say to these 800,000 young people, we are not going to allow them to be subjected to deportation,” Mr. Sanders, Vermont independent, said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

Senate Democrats recently mounted a filibuster of a short-term government funding bill, demanding that a solution for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program be part of the deal.