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Related: About this forumHillary Clinton Takes the Lead on Immigration - HRC room post
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/07/opinion/clinton-takes-the-lead-on-immigration.htmlBy THE EDITORIAL BOARDMAY 7, 2015
With her speech on immigration in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Hillary Rodham Clinton took a large step forward, up front and to the left of President Obama. That is a good place to be for a presidential candidate who proposes to get the stalled debate moving again, and to bring hope to the millions living here outside the law.
Mrs. Clinton defended a path to citizenship for those 11 million, and promised as president to take executive action more broadly than Mr. Obama has to defer the deportations of those who have strong bonds to the community through family and work. She also promised to make conditions more humane for immigrant detainees.
Mrs. Clinton noted that her call for a citizenship path sets her apart from any and all Republicans who are in, or likely to enter, the 2016 race. The same is true of her support for executive action. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, a former advocate of sensible reform, had the sense beaten out of him by the Tea Party, and now seems to be seeking a vague provisional status for the undocumented a long, difficult path to a temporary work permit. Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor, has been moderate in the past but is wobbly on citizenship, a nonstarter for many in his party. Whether he supports it for some immigrants, and which ones, under what conditions, is hard to pin down on any given day; like other Republicans hoping to survive the primaries, he is on his own tortuous path to a coherent position.
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Hillary Clinton Takes the Lead on Immigration - HRC room post (Original Post)
OKNancy
May 2015
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This is an issue in which we can not continue to look in the opposite direction.
Thinkingabout
May 2015
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Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)1. This is an issue in which we can not continue to look in the opposite direction.
We are supposed to be smart people but we are not responding to immigration on a smart basis.
I am glad she has addressed this issue. In fact I just got through reading Bernie's platform and it does not address this issue either. It is time to make a move.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)2. I bet she can get Congress to finally fix it.
She'll have a national mandate, and the Republican Party will adapt or die.
Southern white rural racists are a dying breed.
Gothmog
(144,919 posts)3. I am glad that HRC is taking a strong position on this issue
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)4. I think it was a brilliant move. When she gets
attacked by the right for her position it will further turn Hispanics away from the right.