Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders made a huge promise about immigration during the Democratic debate last week, saying, if president, he’d use executive action to ensure a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.

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“We’ve got 11 million undocumented people in this country. I have talked to some of the young kids with tears rolling down their cheeks, are scared to death that today they may or their parents may be deported,” the 74-year-old Vermont senator said. “I believe that we have got to pass comprehensive immigration reform, something that I strongly supported. … I agree with President Obama who used executive orders to protect families because the Congress, the House was unable or refused to act. And in fact I would go further,” he said.

The Vermont senator added: “Bottom line is a path towards citizenship for 11 million undocumented people, if Congress doesn’t do the right thing, we use the executive orders of the president.”

His comments come days before the Democratic primaries head to Nevada, a state a substantial Latino population, making immigration attorney David Leopold believe that Sanders is "pandering" to the Hispanic vote.

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Still, the Vermont senator’s position on a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants is much more progressive than his rival, Hillary Clinton, who Sanders called out during the debate for wanting to send back the unaccompanied children who migrated to the U.S. in 2014.