Clinton said she would.
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A crowd listens to former secretary of state Hillary Clinton speak at a rally in Nashville on Friday.
“I’ve talked about undocumented immigrants hundreds of times and fought for years for comprehensive immigration reform”, she continued, “And I will continue to do so”.
While campaigning in New Hampshire recently, Hillary Clinton sounded a Donald Trumpian note on immigration.
Advocates say the term “illegal immigrants” is offensive because it implies that the individual instead of the act is illegal. “And I will continue to do so”, Clinton said Tuesday.
In a statement, RNC Hispanic Media Director Ruth Guerra said, “When Hillary Clinton thinks Latinos are not around she will brag about voting for a border fence and even use the term ‘illegal immigrant, ‘ yet in front of Latinos she criticizes such efforts and laments her previous words”.
“That was a poor choice of words”, Clinton wrote during a Facebook chat.
In Tuesday’s Facebook chat, Clinton said the country’s diversity makes it stronger.
“I think it’s important for us to understand what’s really at stake in this election”, Clinton addressed about 900 people at the Boulder Theater in Boulder during remarks that lasted about 45 minutes.
“Do not forget that if you look at their policies, most of the other Republican candidates are equal to Trump without his or her hair style”, The Washington Post reported on the exchange.
“I feel really strongly about this because, you know, some of those hijackers who flew those planes into the World Trade Center, they came here legally and they overstayed so they were here illegally and we didn’t have a clue”.
During a campaign appearance Tuesday in Boulder, Colo., Clinton appeared to point again at Trump, who has taken the hardest line against Syrian refugees among the GOP field.
“Before one audience, she will talk about immigration reform and the need for it”, O’Malley said on KLRU’s Overheard With Evan Smith in Austin, Texas earlier this month.
Bernie Sanders is accusing Clinton of being too cozy with the financial industry she once represented as senator from NY.
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Earlier in the day, the former secretary of state won the endorsement of the Laborers’ International Union of North America, which represents about 500,000 construction workers.
