05-05-2015, 09:39 PM
Hillary Goes All Out on Immigration
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She's surprising me with how full-force and specific she's been on some controversial issues so early in her campaign. I like it. I hope other candidates do the same.
Today, Clinton said she will not only support Obama's blocked executive order regarding deportation protection for over 5,000,000 Dreamers (young undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children) and some of their parents, but that she'd take it even further. She criticized Congress for refusing to do shit when it comes to immigration reform (paraphrased by me). And more...
Snip:
She said that she believes undocumented immigrants who are children, who are particularly vulnerable such as transgender individuals, or who generally are not criminals should not be detained. She also criticized the congressional mandate that a certain number of detention beds be maintained and the fact that private prison companies run many immigrant detention facilities.
"People go out and round up people in order to get paid on a per-bed basis," she said. "That just makes no sense at all to me. That's not the way we should be running any detention facility."
Republican candidates have struggled with the issue of immigration in the past. Though it isn't typically the number one concern for Latinos in polls, it does tend to be more personal to those voters. Republicans' statements against undocumented immigrants likely contributed to the GOP's poor performance among Latinos in 2012.
Clinton, on the other hand, has potential to do well among Latinos. They favored her over Obama in the 2008 Democratic primaries, according to the Pew Research Center. And in the current campaign, she clearly views immigration as offering a positive contrast between herself and Republicans.
Full story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/05...17768.html
She's surprising me with how full-force and specific she's been on some controversial issues so early in her campaign. I like it. I hope other candidates do the same.
Today, Clinton said she will not only support Obama's blocked executive order regarding deportation protection for over 5,000,000 Dreamers (young undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children) and some of their parents, but that she'd take it even further. She criticized Congress for refusing to do shit when it comes to immigration reform (paraphrased by me). And more...
Snip:
She said that she believes undocumented immigrants who are children, who are particularly vulnerable such as transgender individuals, or who generally are not criminals should not be detained. She also criticized the congressional mandate that a certain number of detention beds be maintained and the fact that private prison companies run many immigrant detention facilities.
"People go out and round up people in order to get paid on a per-bed basis," she said. "That just makes no sense at all to me. That's not the way we should be running any detention facility."
Republican candidates have struggled with the issue of immigration in the past. Though it isn't typically the number one concern for Latinos in polls, it does tend to be more personal to those voters. Republicans' statements against undocumented immigrants likely contributed to the GOP's poor performance among Latinos in 2012.
Clinton, on the other hand, has potential to do well among Latinos. They favored her over Obama in the 2008 Democratic primaries, according to the Pew Research Center. And in the current campaign, she clearly views immigration as offering a positive contrast between herself and Republicans.
Full story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/05...17768.html