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The crowd cheered. And Clinton was so right. The Donald Trump show this was not.
This is the Hillary Clinton Democrats have been waiting for.
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.
In a way, Trump’s made the immigration conversation easy for Democrats. She added, while immigration reform is an area very important to Latinos, they are not a single-issue demographic. The tonal differences matter, but so do the policy conversations. The agency deported Max Villatoro, a beloved pastor at a Mennonite Church in Iowa, who was convicted of drunken driving in 1998 and pleaded guilty in 1999 to record tampering for buying a Social Security number, which was then used to get a driver’s license.
When Clinton was asked if she supports in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants, like Sanders and O’Malley, she said she would “support any state that takes that position”.
The bill has gained traction in the wake of a San Francisco woman’s murder by an undocumented immigrant earlier this year. That’s not even new news, for starters. As governor of Maryland, he signed the DREAM Act into law, which provided in-state tuition to undocumented students.
Immigration is a daily issue here in Texas, one that state lawmakers have not shied from. Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee, a former governor and senator from Rhode Island.
Third, there remain unresolved core questions about how the country will handle immigration when it’s time to turn rhetoric into policy.
Latinos want to see where the Democratic candidates stand on global warming and how they plan to combat it. “If we don’t have a border and we have people all over this country we have no idea where they’re coming from, we no longer have a country”. But the AFL-CIO wasn’t the only group on the left that criticized the hard-fought immigration reform package, which was a compromise between those who wanted exclusively immigration enforcement provisions and those who wanted humane legalization options for immigrants. He said Sanders’s message resonates with the working class, particularly Latinos, and not just on immigration.
BNR BOTTOM LINE: Will any of the above be addressed? Get enough people across the political spectrum into a room and tally up everyone’s deal breakers and they start to cancel out the whole process. The question Sanders answered was only partially about his stance on immigrant rights.
Obama has overseen the removal of more than 2.4 million immigrants since taking office, but deportations have been declining steadily in the last three years. Perhaps it took a little competition, but the passion Clinton sometimes lacks on the campaign trail was in full force Tuesday night.
“Our members are looking to see how Secretary Clinton will distinguish herself from her Democratic opponents leading up to the primaries”, Palmarez said in a statement prior to the event. For Democrats who supported President Barack Obama in 2008 instead of her, Clinton said Obama “doesn’t get the credit he deserves” for getting the nation out of recession. Google Politics put out a stat saying that he got a 193 times increase in searches for his name last night, and his campaign said they raised $1.3 million, including having 10 contributions a second at a point. He sought, inadequately, to make that distinction on Tuesday.
Asked whether her performance – which was generally praised by analysts as the best among the five candidates on stage – had closed the door on a Vice President Biden’s candidacy, Clinton demurred. That is why I have put out a policy for comprehensive immigration reform, that is why I would go further than President Obama has on DACA, and DAPA. It continues to provide universal service nationwide, often more efficiently and inexpensively than private carriers. Webb went on to describe his personal connections to the issue, as his wife is a Vietnamese immigrant.
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“I’m feeling really lucky in Las Vegas”, Clinton joked after touring a union training and apprentice program. No, never mind, I do. Copy may not be in its final form. Do you even want to be president?
