“That was a poor choice of words”, Clinton wrote during a Facebook chat. “They have names, and hopes and dreams that deserve to be respected”, Clinton said during a Facebook Q&A with Noticias Telemundo, an NBC-affiliated Spanish-language network.
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Earlier this month former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley-one of Clinton’s Democratic opponents-also criticized the former Secretary for using the the term “illegal immigrant”.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is planning a campaign stop in Minnesota next month. Online publication Colorlines founded the “Drop the I-Word” campaign in 2010. She says, “We should focus finite resources on deporting felons rather than families”.
Clinton’s new plan, Freeman pointed out, does not address the factors that radicalize Middle Easterners, as well as Western, Russian and Chinese Muslims and incite them to acts of terrorism both in the region and beyond it.
Claiming that deporting the millions of illegal aliens in the USA would be impossible to accomplish and turn the country into a police state, Clinton asserted that “therefore, you’ve got to give them some sanctions, penalties, fines, but bring them out so we can know who’s here”. Bingo. Are they native-born, or are they immigrants?
“There is no reason to believe that doing more of the same, which is essentially what Ms. Clinton is proposing, will do anything other than produce more 9/11s and more Parises”, Freeman said, referring to the terrorist attacks on NY and Washington on September 11, 2001 and in Paris on November 13.
“You know your story is so incredibly moving and it’s also a story for so many people, that’s what I keep finding, everywhere I go”, Clinton told Thompson in a video of the exchange provided by the campaign.
The support for the fence is galling enough to immigrant-rights advocates, but her use of the term “illegal immigrants” landed her in more hot water.
While campaigning in New Hampshire recently, Hillary Clinton sounded a Donald Trumpian note on immigration. “There is no room to uplift a community when the conversation begins by taking away their identity”.
The poll found that 51 percent of likely Democratic caucus participants support Clinton, while 42 percent favor Vermont Sen. Then, after an unsuccessful run for the 2008 presidential election, she was appointed to Barack Obama’s cabinet as the 67th U.S. Secretary of State.
Mrs. Clinton’s apology coincided with Mr. Sanders releasing his immigration agenda.
Boyd asked Clinton about health care, including over-the-counter birth control and a measure that will be on the ballot in Colorado in 2016 creating a single payer health care system paid for with taxes. Vargas has pressured a number of journalists and news organizations to abandon the term “illegal immigrant” since coming out as undocumented in a 2011 piece for New York Times Magazine.
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In its first year of the five-year program it saved $4 million, she said.
