US presidential hopeful Clinton calls for easier naturalization

“We are a big-hearted country and we should never forget that and we shouldn’t let anybody on the public stage say that we are mean-spirited, that we are going to build walls, mentally and physically, that we are going to shut doors”, Clinton said at Monday’s conference. “Declare a moratorium on immigrant detention until immigration reform passes”.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Monday she would promote naturalization by waiving fees for more immigrants eligible to become US citizens.

“Instead, Donald Trump is supplying them with new propaganda”, Clinton said December 9 in Waterloo.

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.

After 4 ½ years of civil war, almost half of Syria’s population has been displaced and Russia’s airstrikes since September 30th are only making it harder for those who remain. Prior to the speech, she met with the Suarez family, who fled Honduras and now lives on Long Island.

The former secretary of state is vying with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders for the Democratic Party’s nomination to the November 2016 contest.

“These are real live human beings but too often our system fails to see or recognize that”. Women, Latino, labor, LGBT, Asians, African-Americans, environmental, working-class, and middle-class voters – “all of the groups the Republicans push away – none of us can win unless we work together”, he said.

She will come with a story the activists will likely cheer, though.

“I am so lucky to have her”, Clinton said, as Praeli watched from the back of the ballroom with tears in her eyes. What is noteworthy is that the Clinton campaign is showcasing Gutierrez at a national conference in NY where Gutierrez in a sense will vouch for her immigration policies.

“We believe that requests like this from anyone other than Goldman Sachs and her son-in-law were not passed along”, FACT Executive Director Matt Whitaker told Time magazine, “so there was a preference given in her duty as Secretary of State in comparison to other requests”. Members of the influential NY firm were one of Clinton’s top funders in her 2008 presidential race, giving more than $225,000 at the time. “People are starving for freedom”. She was criticized by immigration activists and a Democratic challenger for using the term “illegal immigrants” at a campaign event in New Hampshire.

During a 2007 debate in NY, where then-Gov.

A Clinton aide attributed the congressman’s support to the campaign’s focus on immigration since, in the spring, when Clinton rolled out a more progressive stance on the issue, and the outreach since. Spitzer later sharply criticized Clinton on immigration. “We each need each other and Hillary Clinton is the leader who will unite us”. But early in her campaign, she earned positive reviews from reformers after rolling out a stronger-than-expected plan to give undocumented immigrants a path to legalization.

The speech was a clear attempt to reach out to the crucial Latino bloc for whom immigration has become a central issue, along with the economy, education and health care.