On Saturday night, November 14, in Des Moines, Iowa the remaining democratic candidates for the 2016 presidential election took the same stage to debate the hottest topics in politics today.
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Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley got a homeade Mexican feast on Thursday courtesy of a local Austin family. He called out Hillary Clinton for working behind the scenes to block a 2007 bill that would have allowed undocumented immigrants in NY to apply for driver’s licenses, as then-Governor Eliot Spitzer, an O’Malley backer, has alleged. “But the truth of the matter is if we want wages to go up, we’ve got to get 11 million of our neighbors out of the out-of-the-books shadow economy and into the full light of an American economy”. After lunch with the Ramírez family, O’Malley went on a Texas radio program and hounded Clinton for her recent use of the term “illegal immigrants” at a town hall in New Hampshire.
Obama moved to bypass Congressional approval for immigration reform in November 2014 by announcing the executive order that offered deferment plans for a few undocumented immigrants who entered the country illegally as children and undocumented people who had citizen children to stay in the country and work without fear of deportation for three years.
“We’ve actually been focusing on border security to the exclusion of talking about comprehensive immigration reform”, said O’ Malley.
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“That’s what we need to do as a nation”, O’Malley added.
