Hillary Clinton to call for path to citizenship at Nevada campaign stop

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will announce at a Nevada campaign stop that she supports a full path to citizenship for undocumented workers as part of an overhaul of the U.S. immigration system.

Clinton is scheduled to appear at a Las Vegas high school Tuesday afternoon during her third campaign trip in an early-voting state after declaring last month that she would be seeking the presidency in November 2016.

Rancho High School, where Clinton will appear at a roundtable discussion, is less than 10 miles north of the famous Las Vegas strip of casinos. Its student body is approximately 70 percent Hispanic and includes some students who would be eligible for a special residency status for those who entered the U.S. as children under a stalled Democratic immigration proposal.

Clinton is expected to say in her remarks that a “true solution” to the country’s immigration problems would include “nothing less than a full and equal path to citizenship”, according to an advisory provided by a campaign aide.

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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/clinton-to-call-for-path-to-citizenship-at-nevada-campaign-stop/

[yallerdawg]

1. For people who have given us so much...

time for us to give back!

Let the conservatives wallow in their last gasp of racism.

[Evergreen Emerald]

2. kick & R

[Iliyah]

3. kick

[lunamagica]

4. K&R!!!

This is wonderful!

[Red Oak]

5. No path to citizenship should be given other than to apply like everyone else

I understand that non-documented immigrants are looking for a better life, I understand that they have really helped U.S. businesses by taking jobs at lower wages than citizens of the U.S. would, I have seen them be exploited, working "off the books" as it were. It really helps the profits and, even at these pay levels, it helps the non-documented immigrants, human beings with families, relative to what they have back home or they would not accept the large risks.

They are also here illegally. Emphasis on illegal.

One can't discuss the issues facing the middle class and working poor in America without recognizing illegal immigration as a key component.

What to do? Start enforcing the laws that say that if you are non-documented, you can't get a job here, then penalize companies that hire non-documented immigrants making it unprofitable.

Non-documented immigrants can apply for citizenship the same as everyone else applying to be a citizen. No preferential treatment. If they get citizenship - great! Welcome! If not, they have a choice to make on what to do with their future. Just as they came, they may also have to leave. Some times large risk doesn't pay off. Especially when laws are broken.

[lunamagica]

15. If you believe this maybe you should vote Republican

Since both Democratic candidates support a full path to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented workers living here.

Yes, Bernie Sanders also supports full legalization for undocumented workers.

[cosmicone]

16. Enjoy your stay on DU

By calling them "illegal" and criminalizing people looking for a better life you have two choices: 1. Arrest all of them and put them in jail (at a cost of some $100K per person per year which we don't have or 2. Arrest all of them and deport them back -- which will cost about $200K per person in manhunts, arrests and transportation. In the meantime, their families, many of whom are US citizens, will starve and will have to be put on welfare, medicaid etc. at an additional cost.

When the pilgrims came, did they come with visas issued by the Native American Nations? When the Irish, Italians, Russians, Dutch etc came, did they come with visas obtained after standing in line?

Do you know that there are a lot of English, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and other EU country citizens living illegally in the US? (almost two million of them) They don't even have to jump over a fence and walk through desert -- they come on visa waiver programs and simply never go back.

(The visa waiver programs are utterly racist -- only white countries (except Japan) have visa waivers and their citizens can come and go as they please. No one ever mentions the illegal immigration resulting from them.)

What you are essentially saying is that brown-skinned people should be kept under our thumb and forced to jump through hoops so that they can qualify for the crumbs that we throw at them.

[Texano78704]

22. Parrots do better

at repeating words that this. It's all anti-immigrant memes, no real thought here.

One can't discuss the issues facing the middle class and working poor in America without recognizing illegal immigration as a key component.

Any time y'all want to go pick fruit and vegetables for twelve hours a day, go for it. Otherwise, shut the hell up.

[candelista]

25. Who is a parrot?

You yourself are guilty of the thing you accuse the other poster of. There's no "real thought" in you post either. Americans used to work those fields. But right, they won't do it for substandard wages and they won't do it 12 hours a day.

[awoke_in_2003]

29. "Americans used to work those fields"

Whether it be slaves, share croppers, or migrant workers, Americans have long depended on someone else to work those fields for little or nothing at all.

[Kali]

23. bullshit

[Hoyt]

27. Wrong! We've taken advantage of these people, and they deserve better. Even old Reagan was

sympathetic, maybe for the wrong reasons.

[duhneece]

30. YOu seem unaware of asylum seeking.

I grew up thinking that Russians and East Germans who came/stayed in our country without their documents were freedom seeking heroes.

[candelista]

6. She likes H1b visas, too.

Anything to provide more cheap labor for her corporate masters.

[lunamagica]

7. Cheap labor comes from unndocumented workers

Legal workers get equal pay

[candelista]

8. Cheap labor drives everyone's wages down.

That's because of the law of supply and demand.

[lunamagica]

9. Again, cheap labor is a problem with undocumented workers

Once they are legal, it is equal wages for everyone.

They are already here. They are already working, so there is enough demand.

The problem lies with corporations sending factories overseas.. That's the issue that need to be fixed.

[candelista]

10. "Equal low wages for everyone."

That's what happens when you flood the job market with millions of new workers.

[lunamagica]

11. But they arent new!

They are already here and working, and have been for a long time!

[Beauregard]

13. This will encourage more illegal immigration.

The ones already in the US have already done their job of driving down wages in low end jobs--ones that the poorest Americans have to compete for. The promise of citizenship for current illegals will encourage future illegals. There will be another amnestia, then another, etc. That's the idea.

[lunamagica]

14. Not necesarily

Believe it or not, not everyone wants to come to America.

BTW, Bernie Sanders is also in favor of a full path to citizenship.

[Beauregard]

17. Just think about it for a while.

Economic conditions in Latin America are getting worse, not better, and the population keeps growing. These forces will continue to drive people to climb the fence. How many more millions can the US take? Twenty million? Fifty? A hundred? Long before that time US wages will be driven down to the level of Third World workers.

Better solution: we should do something to help people south of our border to improve economic conditions in their own countries so they don't have to leave to find work. Step one: the US should stop its predatory lending practices in Latin America--and elsewhere.

[lunamagica]

19. I totally agree with you on improving economic conditions in Latin America

That would be best for everyone.

However, for the 11 million already here, people who have built a life, a home; people who have roots here, children who are American citizens. People who already have deep roots here. It would best for everyone to make them legal.

But yes, we must help to improve living and working conditions abroad so no one risks life and limb to cross the border out of desperation looking for a better life.

[d_legendary1]

21. One thing that would help them out big time is eliminating NAFTA

and all these stupid free trade agreements that have destroyed their livelyhoods in their respective countries. Since free trade agreements bring the price of their goods and services down they have no choice but to go to other countries and make a living while living dangerously as undocumented migrants.

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/11/24/what-weve-learned-from-nafta/under-nafta-mexico-suffered-and-the-united-states-felt-its-pain

[candelista]

26. Yes. nt

[Geronimoe]

12. HR-Clinton for everyday illegal aliens

Rescind Bill Clinton's NAFTA and banksters will not be putting Mexicans out of work with big-Ag.

[sulphurdunn]

18. "Path to full citizenship"

"Deja Vu all over again"

[Comrade Grumpy]

20. Good. That would be both smart and humane.

[Beauregard]

24. Some people on DU have enough respect for others to give reasons for their opinions.

You are not one of these people. So why should I read anything you've got to say? I'm putting you on ignore. Just thought I'd tell you.

[cantbeserious]

28. Others Stand For Immigration Reform As Well - Nothing Special Here About HRC

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