I can tell you that there are real differences. I'll give you one small one, but these have been argued before.
NY and Maryland have tuition equity. (So does Florida for most public colleges). That means that if you were brought to the US as a 5 year old and you are undocumented - you pay in state tuition.
If you live in VERMONT (note that's Bernie's state), you either pay out-of-state tuition or maybe can't get into college at all if you are undocumented. Immigrants are very aware of these differences.
Those "little things" are part of a large fabric of efforts by Hillary. She has been on Univision here for years. A lot of the work has been through the Clinton foundation, not the US Government. She has had an outreach for decades in the schools, with women, with minorities, and with immigrants. Here's a snippet:
http://correctrecord.org/ and the Clinton Foundation. If anything, there's no hagiography that really captures ALL that Hillary has done over the decades - and she has constantly been on the front lines (we see it on Univision, etc.) or working with African American churches...you can be critical of Hillary for whatever you want, but her hands-on record with minority and latinos is the best of all the candidates of both parties.
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Hillary Clinton has called passage of DREAM Act “long overdue.”
She was one of the two cosponsors of Senator Ted Kennedy’s 2004 bill, the S.O.L.V.E. Act, and during her time in the Senate she continued to cosponsor and vote for comprehensive immigration reform legislation.
Hillary Clinton introduced the Legal Immigrant Children’s Health Improvement Act.
Hillary Clinton developed and introduced legislation to expand job training access to people with limited English language skills.
Hillary Clinton called for passage of legislation so that “All immigrants on the verge of gaining residency status should not be forced to leave this country while they wait for the INS to process their application.”
In 2007, during debate over the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, Hillary Clinton introduced an amendment to reclassify the spouses and minor children of lawful permanent residents as immediate relatives.
Senator Clinton stood with the nation’s governors and mayors in 2003 against budget reductions to the AmeriCorps program.
The Alliance for a Healthier Generation, founded by the American Heart Association and the Clinton Foundation, works to reduce the prevalence of childhood obesity and to empower kids to develop lifelong, healthy habits. The Alliance works with schools, companies, community organizations, healthcare professionals and families to transform the conditions and systems that lead to healthier children. - See more at: https://www.clintonfoundation.org/our-work/alliance-healthier-generation#sthash.ROXdcrsH.dpuf
We’re working with our partners – one playground at a time – to transform public, community spaces into inclusive environments that are fully accessible to children and families of all backgrounds and abilities. With conversation prompts in both Spanish and English, we hope to encourage fun, language-rich interactions between parents and children as a regular component of playtime. - See more at: https://www.clintonfoundation.org/blog/2015/07/18/transforming-playgrounds-make-play-time-talk-time#sthash.Wgz3M2ut.dpuf
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/hillary-clinton-attend-clementa-pinckney-funeral-119448.html
Clinton was in Charleston on the day of the shooting, which killed nine African-American churchgoers on June 17, though she left the state earlier in the evening after a pair of campaign stops and a fundraiser in town.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/univision-hillary-clinton-bill-clinton-117851.html
Inside the Univision-Clinton network
The ties between the Clintons and the Spanish language television network run deep.
Hillary Clinton Has Deep History With Latinos And There’s Not A Lot The GOP Can Do About It
Hillary Clinton applauds United Farm Workers President Arturo Rodriguez during a rally in Salinas, California, on Jan. 22, 2008.
Republicans are keenly aware that they must begin to peel away Latino voters from Democrats, who gave President Obama 71% of their vote in 2012. But there’s a huge problem for those 2016 efforts, rarely discussed and largely forgotten.
Hillary Clinton, the presumptive favorite for the Democratic nomination, beat Obama 2–1 among Latino voters in the 2008 primary. It wasn’t just name recognition, either. The Clintons have a robust network of Latino leaders and activists, and long history with outreach that dates back to 1970s in Texas.
This is not to say Clinton’s path is totally clear — her 2008 campaign was not without stumbles, and she faced difficult questions last year from activists on immigration. If Jeb Bush were the Republican nominee, some argue, he might actually compete for a significant share of Latino support, something activists aren’t totally closed to. But there is no other candidate both as likely to win a party nomination and who will start with the established, enduring Latino support, as Clinton.
“Republicans have a Latino problem,” said Alfonso Aguilar, a former official in the George W. Bush administration and director of the American Principles Project’s Latino Partnership, which promotes conservative values to the Latino community. He described the Republican policies around immigration that put the party stuck between an Obama “amnesty” position and a Steve King “enforcement-only” stance.
“Hillary would be a formidable candidate with Hispanics,” he said.
Even for a candidate who has been on the national stage for decades, Clinton’s history with Latino voters goes back a surprisingly long way.
In 1972, when a young Hillary and Bill Clinton were working the ill-fated George McGovern campaign, she worked closely with well-respected union leader, Franklin Garcia, who took her under his wing as she helped register Latino voters in south Texas and along the Rio Grande Valley.
“Hispanics in South Texas were,” she wrote in her 2003 memoir Living History, “understandably, wary of a blond girl from Chicago who didn’t speak a word of Spanish.” But Garcia “took me places I could never have gone alone and vouched for me to Mexican Americans who worried I might be from the immigration service or some other government agency.” Garcia drove her and Bill across the border to Matamoros, a dive that had only a “decent mariachi band,” she wrote, but where she indulged in barbecued cabrito, or goat.
Garry Mauro, one of her first contacts in Texas, told the San Antonio Express in 2008 that back then she had a “cultural affinity with Hispanics,” asking questions and listening to their concerns, a dynamic that would be on display again, more than three decades later in Nevada, as she tried to woo an influential Latino activist.
Eddie Escobedo was a flashy dresser — suits and hats to match — and hotly in demand by Democratic politicians.
The owner of a radio station and El Mundo newspaper, both of which he used to great effect, the late Escobedo was an important ally for anyone who wanted to get their message out to Latinos in Nevada. That’s why Brian Greenspun, a Clinton ally who runs the Greenspun Media Group (which includes the Las Vegas Sun, Las Vegas Weekly, and Las Vegas Magazine), invited Escobedo along with other minority leaders to his home for dinner to meet with Clinton as she was exploring a 2008 campaign.
“She had a way about her,” says Eddie Escobedo Jr., who was at the dinner. His father died in 2010 and left El Mundo to him
The way my dad explained it, she was somebody you could talk to,” Escobedo Jr. said. “She spoke from the heart and asked about what the Hispanic community was going through and what had to be done. My dad was taken aback by Hillary, by how she was able to communicate and listen and how she wanted to help Hispanics.”
"Escobedo supported Clinton “tooth and nail,” his son says — but of course she did not win. Obama campaign senior advisers repeatedly went to the El Mundo offices to wear down the activist, and finally got him to take a call from Obama. The two eventually had a meeting at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, where Escobedo presented Obama with a T-shirt and hat with the words “El Jefe” — the boss — on them.
When Escobedo died from cancer in 2010, the Clintons offered their condolences in a letter to the family and Obama called Escobedo Jr.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/adriancarrasquillo/hillary-clinton-has-deep-history-with-latinos-and-theres-not#.puq3DPp9X
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