Offering a prebuttal to Republicans, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that the American people “cannot give into fear” in the aftermath of attacks in Paris and California, laying out a multi-pronged strategy to protect the homeland and prevent domestic terrorist attacks.
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Clinton hopes to parlay her years as secretary of state and NY senator after the September 11, 2001, attacks into traction for her presidential campaign, with the topic of terrorism providing the candidate with a ripe opportunity to showcase her commander-in-chief credentials.
Luis Gutierrez praised Clinton as someone who would work to “keep families together and stop them from being destroyed by a broken immigration system” by protecting President Obama’s executive orders on immigration.
These statements were made in response to Clinton’s to an interview earlier this week in which she said Trump’s plans to temporarily ban Muslims from travelling to the USA was unsafe.
(Photo: Joseph Roman) A banner held by silent protestors during Hillary Clinton’s immigration speech on December 14, 2015.
Protesters interrupted Clinton three times.
Trump claimed on Sunday that Clinton “Killed hundreds and thousands of people with her stupidity…” with her decisions as Secretary of State.
“We don’t want to brand actions of a few to be what our country is all about, what America is all about”, he said. She still has room to improve upon what Obama’s done.
The former first lady’s lead is even greater among female voters, with 59 percent saying they’d support her, compared to just 32 percent who’d back Sanders – a slight increase over the 57 percent of women who supported Clinton last month, the poll found.
The banner evoked a response from Clinton, who said the hunger strike should prompt Americans to look critically at immigrant detention and close private detention centers run as for-profit enterprises.
“Our security professionals need to track and analyze ISIS social media posts and map jihadist networks”, Clinton said, directly addressing a hole in one of the San Bernardino shooter’s vetting process, referring to the fact that Tashfeen Malik had posted about her support of violent jihad on Facebook.
“Anyone who has traveled in the past five years to a country facing serious problems with terrorism foreign fighters should have to go through a full visa investigation”, Clinton said, “no matter where they’re from”. Little does she know that everyday Americans know better.
To the immigration reform advocates who filled the room at Monday’s conference, Clinton’s changes were more of a welcome evolution than a flip-flop. Hours before her speech, officials in Los Angeles closed all schools after an emailed threat a large-scale attack with guns and bombs – a threat some law enforcement officials deemed a hoax.
Sanders is scheduled to address the same event, the National Immigrant Integration Conference, on Tuesday.
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“At least her words are not negative words”, Acevedo told HuffPost.
