Hillary Clinton Interrupted By Immigration Protester Over Private Prison Donations

[azmom]

Hillary Clinton was interrupted by an immigration protester while presenting an award to chef Jose Andres at the annual Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute gala in Washington, D.C. on Thursday.
Holding up a sign that read “Hillary for immigrants in prisons,” Juan Carlos Ramos of the advocacy organization United We Dream Action stood near the stage, yelling at Clinton as she spoke over him. Ramos was protesting Clinton accepting donations from corporations that run private prisons.
Ramos told BuzzFeed News he was chanting “Hillary we’re watching. My deportation will be your funding.”
“Our message to Hillary Clinton is simple: Immigrant youth do not trust you,” Ramos, who was swiftly removed from the event, said in an earlier statement. “It is time to drop the prison money and stand with our community — you can’t have it both ways.”

http://www.buzzfeed.com/adriancarrasquillo/hillary-clinton-interrupted-by-immigration-protester-over-pr#.rvK0g9j6z

[jkbRN]

1. Good on Juan Carlos Ramos!

Accepting money from the private prison industry is insanely unethical, especially when she is trying to portray herself as pro-immigration & racial justice.

[GummyBearz]

3. She was for private prison industry in the past

Most recently she is against it. This is how she works. She thinks switching positions will give her a "high ground" when questioned. Some people here agree with her tactics.

[jkbRN]

4. I don't.

She will fail the American people and their families. I have zero trust in her rhetoric. Actions speak louder than words. If she were a real candidate, and really believed in what she said she would not accept these donations and have them returned.

But yes, I totally agree with you, MANY people here fall for her MANY facades.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

2. Removed from the event? What?

I know I've read right here in these pages that when a politician is interrupted on stage, the politician's job is to stop talking and listen to whatever the interrupter has to say. At the same time, I'm pretty sure we're not going to discover anything about Juan Carlos Ramos's dumbass Sarah Palin phase, since I'm pretty sure he never had one.

[Fairgo]

36. interesting...

I remember Obama making space for someone to say their peace, and responding as a human being would. I think it is the better road for one who wishes to lead to show deference to dissenting voices. Fault lines tend to form around that which is ignored and suppressed.

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, azmom.

[askew]

6. Good for Ramos. Hillary is a hypocrite on immigration reform.

She attacked Obama from the right on immigration in 2007-08. She made horrible comments about illegal immigrants in her Senate re-election. She wanted to send child refugees back to Latin America without due process in 2014 even the ones who were fleeing from the horrible Honduras government that she propped up as SoS. She gets money from private prisons. Her immigration plan is all just vague talking points. She doesn't address many of the real issues involved - Operation Streamline, for-profit prisons, etc.

[Bread and Circus]

7. So does this mean Hillary has a Latino problem now?

[senz]

10. Of course it does. Isn't that how it works?

[Fumesucker]

8. A double standard is infinitely superior to no standard at all

[Fairgo]

38. Twice as good!

I do maths.

[senz]

9. Our Hillary Group said she can't help who bundles her ill-gotten funds.

She should have had them take this rude fellow aside and tell him what's what.

Lotta nerve, complaining about "private prisons"!

[Cheese Sandwich]

11. She spoke over him? Now that's just rude. I guess she needs to work on her listening skills.

[oasis]

12. The honoree, Chef Jose Andreas is due proper respect and

recognition for his accomplishments. Hill was making a presentation, not giving a speech.

[Cheese Sandwich]

13. So captured migrants suffering lengthy stays in private prisons don't deserve respect?

They don't deserve a voice?

[oasis]

14. Their day is coming, this was Andres' day. You do understand?

[Cheese Sandwich]

16. Do you understand sometimes people disrupt events because that's the only way to be heard

Awards ceremonies are hardly any more important than this

Overcrowded, unsanitary conditions seen at immigrant detention centers

Facing growing controversy over reports of crowded and unsanitary conditions, Border Patrol officials on Wednesday provided the first limited public access to the two facilities, allowing reporters on brief, controlled tours for glimpses of children and a few mothers detained there at the end of their often long journeys from places as far away as Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

In Arizona, most were corralled behind chain-link fences topped with razor wire, huddling for warmth on plastic mats under flimsy metallic Mylar blankets. A television was suspended from the ceiling. Banks of portable toilets served as sanitary facilities. Beside a recreation area, a camouflage tarp had been strung up to shield temporary showers.

In Brownsville, the group included young mothers, many of whom looked exhausted. Some of the children looked dazed or stared blankly from the cells, while others waved and smiled. Many slept.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-texas-immigrant-children-20140618-story.html

[oasis]

17. I'm sorry for their plight, however, Andreas' and his family

Who were most likely in the audience, should not have to have his moment ruined because a disruptor choose to do this at this particular time.

The ills of society will plague humankind until the end of time.

The disruptive actions of the activist had far more an impact on the Andreas family than it did in furthering his cause.

[azmom]

28. The ills of society will plague humankind

Until the end of time? Your insensitivity is astonishing. I just don't know what to say to you.

[LettuceSea]

26. Thank you for posting those sad photos. Some people don't get it because it doesn't impact them.

It's simple...

If that was your family, your relatives in those inhumane conditions, why the hell would you vote for a candidate who will help it continue?

[artislife]

24. But when?

Find out how long they have been waiting. Find out how they are waiting.

Too sad for tears.

[TM99]

30. Really?

You mean like at a Social Security event in, say, Seattle, where an honored Senator was to give one of many presentations on the topic at hand?

You mean it would be disrespectful to interrupt that for the purposes of valid activism?

[oasis]

32. Comparing apples to oranges. (eom)

[TM99]

33. No, just pointing out

some people's hypocrisy.

[oasis]

35. If you care to check any of my posts back then

you'll find I was highly critical of the actions of BLM at both Bernie events.

So you can point your finger of hypocrisy elsewhere.

[frylock]

34. True. Nobody demanded #bowdownhillary

[mwrguy]

15. She's a huge beneficiary of the prison-industrial complex

[LettuceSea]

29. That's ok, as long as she is a Democrat!

[oasis]

37. Her Democratic Party credentials exceed 99% of anyone posting

here, that's for damn sure. She's got a ton of party endorsements to prove it. But you already know that.

[oasis]

39. Huge beneficiary?

[Segami]

18. K&R!

[in_cog_ni_to]

19. Wait...why didn't she give him the microphone and let him take over the stage and event? Hillary

must hate immigrants. She talked over him? HOW RUDE!!!! How dare she not let him speak his mind!!!

[LettuceSea]

20. This won't go away any time soon. GOPs #1 weapon in keeping votes we need at home

If an AA or Hispanic voter stays at home because of this, I honestly cannot blame them. P4P is modern day slavery.

HRC, and our party, really screwed up by letting this P4P cancer into the party. No one's fault but our own.

They better diffuse this NOW as opposed to later. Learn from the email mess, don't let this linger!

[azmom]

21. We aren't staying home. We will be voting for

Bernie.

[artislife]

25. Right with you, hermana!

[99Forever]

22. I never "stay home." Fuck that.

I do however vote my conscience.

[LettuceSea]

23. If HRC is the nominee...

My conscience may tell me to stay at home.

I'm not from the "everyone get in line and do what you're told" generation. That's for sheep.

[99Forever]

27. Certainly your option if you chose.

There are others. I chose one of them.

[azmom]

31. It would be very hard for me

To cast a vote for Hillary. Working my ass off not to see her as our nominee.