Sanders, however, has long criticized open borders. In 2015, he referred to them as a "right wing proposal" pushed forward by the wealthy Koch brothers. "You're doing away with the concept of a nation state, and I don't think there's any country in the world which believes in that," he said in an interview with Ezra Klein of Vox. - https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-open-borders-poverty...
As for Democratic (or Republican, for that matter, including Trump's 1st term) presidents being anti-immigration - that was entirely smoke and mirrors. Statistics show mass legal immigration continued (then massively accelerated under Biden): https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-u-s-net-immigration...