Speaking more or less in one voice, five people dressed in dark blue formalwear who want to be the Democrat’s candidate for president reaffirmed their support for comprehensive immigration reform and spoke of the need for a vaguely uncharted path towards citizenship for the estimated 11 million undocumented migrants living in the United States.

Leftward-pulling candidate Bernie Sanders, the socialist Senator from the Green Mountain State, spoke passionately at tonight’s CNN Democratic debate about the need to “take people out of shadows” and bring them into the blistering sunlight of U.S. citizenship, as it were.

Frontrunner Hillary Clinton agreed with her feisty and pesky white-haired challenger. The former Secretary of State even took Sanders’ position a step further, saying she wants to extend healthcare coverage to “every child,” including “undocumented children.” The former first lady said she wants to “open up the opportunity for immigrants to be able to buy in” to President Obama’s Affordable Care Act.

Tertiary candidate Martin O’Malley amped up the love even more by saying, “We need to understand that our country is made stronger in every generation by the arrival of new American immigrants.” O’Malley also threw a punch at celebrity candidate Donald Trump, whom he called a “carnival barker,” a “xenophobe,” and an “immigrant hater.”

“We are a nation of immigrants; we are made stronger by immigrants. I am for a generous, compassionate America that says we are all in this together,” O’Malley said, adding that comprehensive immigration reform would serve to boost wages across the country.

Even Democratic hopeful Jim Webb, a poker-faced former Republican whose gruff, military man vibe belies his apparently liberal views on certain issues, said he “wouldn’t have a problem” with undocumented immigrants getting “Obama Care.” He stressed that his wife, whom he referred to as a Vietnamese refugee, came to the U.S. not speaking English yet managed to graduate from Cornell Law School. “That’s not only the American Dream, that’s the value we have with a good immigration system in place.”

Hillary then jumped back in before the smiling, feckless Lincoln Chaffee got a chance to speak. The former first lady succinctly connected the dots for those at home too inert to notice any pattern forming among the aspiring Democratic candidates. “There is such a difference between everything you are hearing here on this stage and what you hear from the Republicans, who have demonized hardworking immigrants,” she said.

Hillary also tossed love at the “Dreamers” for their “incredible talent” and “determination” and said she’d take Obama’s actions on immigration even further.

Hillary is right. None of the Democratic hopefuls talked about building border walls, called Mexican immigrants criminal rapists, or blathered from the spleen about the irreparable perils of “illegals” doing harm to this fair land. Instead, the Democratic candidates spoke thoughtfully and personally about immigration as if it were a serious issue involving real people.

The Democrats’ preference for comprehensive reform over bricks, mortar and razor wire makes immigration a major wedge issue separating the two fields of candidates, and gives voters a very clear idea about how a Democratic White House would be different from a Republican one.

For more on the immigration debate, check out Fusion’s focus group here: