Clinton outlines immigration reform plan
Clinton was interrupted on Monday by protesters who said the current immigration laws exclude or do not do enough for too many people, including many lesbian, gay and transgender people.
The campaign has also rolled out a robust set of executive actions Sanders would take on immigration as president.
Clinton says she supports creating a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. “We have got to do better”, she said.
The tenor of the campaign has changed, however, since earlier this year when Gutierrez was praising Clinton and Jeb Bush as leaders on immigration, in a way that signified the success of progressives on immigration. Some held a banner asking if she stands with the detained immigrants who launched a hunger strike on Thanksgiving.
On Dec. 1, you published an nearly 500-word article from the McClatchy Washington Bureau regarding the latest release of 7,825 pages of emails from Hillary Clinton. Another was angry she did not call explicitly for an end to all mass immigration detention.
Clinton said she would work to expand fee waivers for people looking to naturalize and become USA citizens, as well as increasing access to language programs to improve English language proficiency. Some activists silently protested with a giant banner, while others made their voices heard.
“She (Clinton) did a good addressing everything including women’s rights and LGBT rights”. The campaign announced Sunday that her speech will take place at the University of Minnesota.
Prior to her speech, Clinton met with a family whose daughters are both DREAMers and DACA recipients.
Much of Clinton’s immigration policies were already public knowledge since her immigration roundtable discussion in Las Vegas on May 5.
“Candidates for president are calling immigrants drug runners and rapists”.
O’Malley, who is still struggling to make the Democratic contest a three-way race, has criticized his rivals for their indecisiveness on immigration.
“In the aftermath of the Paris attacks last month, Clinton appeared at the Council on Foreign Relations to discuss her three-part plan for defeating ISIS and other terrorist groups”, the press release stated. And in this campaign she has tried to cast herself as a champion for immigration reform. She turned her back on children fleeing violence in Central America and blocked a proposal to provide drivers licenses to New American immigrants. “Outdated thinking of the past will not fix our inhumane immigration system”.
Sanders is scheduled to address the same event, the National Immigrant Integration Conference, on Tuesday.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) also hit Clinton prior to her speech. Whitaker said OGE could refer the matter to the Department of Justice. A conservative watchdog group will call for a federal investigation Mon.in to Hillary Clinton’s actions towards a deep-sea mining company tied to her son-in-law, in accordance to a printed report.