Hillary Clinton Breakup With Obama Against Deportation Raids
Hillary Clinton Breakup With Obama Against Deportation Raids
Democratic presidential candidate
Hillary Clinton speaks during the Brown and Black Forum, Monday, January 11,
2016, in Des Moines, Iowa.
Joined Democratic presidential
front-runner Hillary Clinton's rivals Monday in opposition to the Obama
administration's deportation raids targeting Central American immigrants who
entered the United States illegally and ignoring deportation orders.
He said, speaking in a forum
aimed at young voters and minorities in Iowa, Clinton said the raids
"sowed fear and division in immigrant communities across the country.
People are afraid to go to work. They are afraid to send their children to
school. They are afraid to go to the hospital, or even replaced grocery ".
Clinton has drawn criticism from
pro-immigration groups in 2014 when she said that unaccompanied minors Central
America who have crossed the southern border must be returned to their
countries of origin.
However, on Monday it called for
the lawyer funded by the government of unaccompanied minors in immigration
court, as well as more funding for asylum officers and immigration judges and
translators.
"," Clinton said in an
earlier time, but we should not be armed federal officers appear in the people
we have laws and we must be guided by these laws, "" houses, with
women and children from their beds in the middle of the night. "
The comments Clinton made clear
break with Obama, who served as foreign minister during the term of the first
President.
Former rivals Clinton, Senator
Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, had come out
strongly against the raids when first planning was reported last month. At the
time, Sanders said he was "very distubed" According to the reports,
while O'Malley called "reckless deportation" raids that were "at
odds" with America's character.
Conducted the first raid reported
last week in Texas and Gerogia, with more than expected in all parts of the
country. He said Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson was in these raids are
designed to deter immigrants from entering the United States illegally
Johnson said, "As I have
said repeatedly, our borders are not open to illegal immigration", last
week. "If you come here illegally, we will send you a copy in accordance
with the laws and our values." to
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