Looking ahead, Sanders’ plan for the future flow of immigrants is focused on keeping families together, protecting women from discrimination, strengthening and expanding support for refugees, ending the economic exploitation of immigrant workers and reducing health care costs.
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Wall Street has been the biggest contributor over many years to Clinton’s political campaigns and she supports the current system that protects the private insurance companies and pharmaceutical corporations that have given so much money.
“We started this campaign at something like 3 percent in the polls, and I think it’s fair to say that in Georgia or SC, 70, 80, 90 percent of the people didn’t even know who Bernie Sanders was, let alone what he stands for”, Sanders said.
And some Palmetto State donors who gave the most to Obama’s two presidential bids have not yet given to Clinton, which could be a sign of her strength and that of allied super PACS, or a lack of enthusiasm to invest in the campaign, some S.C. Democrats said. At that point, though, the challenge for Hillary Clinton is likely to be much different. On Friday, he took questions in front of a bipartisan group of black civic and business leaders gathered in SC, where he’s also airing a radio ad in which he bemoans “institutional racism”, calls for ending racial profiling and mass incarceration, and highlights his work in the civil rights movement as a college student. As a former secretary of State, she is seen as the strongest candidate to handle matters of global outcome.
For example, Medicare-for-all would save the typical family making $50,000 a year more than $5,000.
But while she suggested steps to regulate the industry in that 2007 speech, she was careful to strike a more balanced tone, saying “there’s plenty of blame to go around”.
Beyond the personal income, Clinton also has close political ties to the finance industry. This would be on top of what the Congress should finally get around to authorizing.
Both Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, another Democratic rival, support reinstating the law that once separated commercial and investment banking.
“Her husband’s administration did great things for the country, but those days are over”, Brown added.
“I am asking all the presidential candidates to recognize that #wordsmatter by committing to not using the term “illegal” when referencing the undocumented population”, Vargas asked after reminding Clinton she used the term in New Hampshire.
Clinton has traditionally been in favor of keeping marijuana criminalized, and has said she’s waiting on “more studies” before changing her mind.
Clinton was campaigning in Nevada amid calls for new restrictions on refugees fleeing war-torn Syria in the aftermath of attacks in Paris that killed 130 people and wounded hundreds more.
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If this strikes you as implausible – the Democratic equivalent of the no-tax-hike pledge Republican candidates regularly impose on themselves – we agree.
