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发帖数: 182 | 1 Hillary Clinton presses advantage on immigration
Hillary Clinton talks immigration reform with 9th grade student Betsaida
Frausto in Las Vegas. (Photo credit: Mike Blake/Reuters)
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton sought to seize an
advantage over Republicans Tuesday on the issue of immigration, accusing
those who talk of “legal status” of wanting to denigrate undocumented
immigrants.
“When they talk about legal status, that is code for second class status,”
Clinton said at a small event in Las Vegas, where she conducted a
conversation with six young Latino residents of Nevada.
Clinton said that if elected president, she would “go even further” than
President Obama has in granting provisional legal status to millions of
undocumented immigrants, saying that she would extend protections Obama gave
to young people who entered the nation before the age of 16 — called
DREAMers — to their parents.
“There are more people like many parents of DREAMers and others with deep
ties and contributions to our communities who deserve to stay, and I will
fight for them,” Clinton said.
But her sharpest barb was the one aimed at the Republicans running for
president in 2016, among whom, she said, there is not one person who has
been “clearly and consistently supporting a path to citizenship.”
“Not one,” she said.
That’s only accurate if you don’t include Republicans still mulling a run,
such as Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who continues to argue vociferously
for citizenship for a broad swath of the undocumented population. But most
of the Republican field — those who have declared and those who are
exploring a run — has shied away from promising citizenship and is focused
on the term “legal status” instead.
Some, like former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush — who is not yet a formal candidate
— refuse to say the word “citizenship,” even if they’ve spoken out
extensively on behalf of immigrants. When asked by Yahoo News whether Bush’
s talk of “earned legal status” would exclude the possibility of
citizenship, Bush spokesman Tim Miller sent a block quote of Bush’s past
comments on the issue, which didn’t address the question. When pressed,
Miller said Bush was for “earned legal status.”
And then there is Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. — the most prominent Republican
to argue now and in the past for a path to citizenship. Rubio now talks of
giving undocumented immigrants who have not broken any laws the opportunity
to apply for “permanent residency” after paying a fine, verifying they can
speak English, and spending “a significant amount of time” in the country
under a “nonpermanent work visa.” But in his most recent discussion of
this matter last week in Washington, Rubio also avoided the word citizenship
, except for at the moment when he talked about past attempts at immigration
reform.
“The past experiences show us, the [19]86 bill that passed during the
Reagan years, a large percentage of the people who received that amnesty at
that time have never become citizens at all,” Rubio said during a
discussion at a National Review summit.
Last year, Rubio made a comment on an Iowa radio station that further
confused his position, which the Clinton campaign passed on as an example of
the Republican senator’s past lack of clarity on the issue.
“What do you do with millions of people in this country who are here
illegally? What do you do about it?” Rubio said on the radio show. “And I
think that the couple of things we’re not going to do — we’re not going
to award citizenship to people or give them a benefit they wouldn’t
otherwise have.”
One way to interpret this comment is that Rubio was arguing against giving
citizenship immediately to undocumented immigrants in a way that allowed
them to obtain full legal status before others who have sought to enter the
country legally and have waited for years.
When asked Tuesday evening whether Rubio’s plan would lead to citizenship,
spokesman Alex Conant said, “Under current law, permanent residence is
first step towards citizenship. We wouldn’t change that.”
Clinton praised the bipartisan group of eight senators, which included Rubio
as a member, who helped the Senate pass an immigration reform bill in the
summer of 2013, and criticized House Speaker John Boehner for not putting
the issue up for a vote in the lower chamber.
“I think it would have passed had they taken it up, but the leadership in
the House decided politically they didn’t want to do that because they have
people who are strongly opposed to comprehensive immigration reform,”
Clinton said.
And she tweaked Rubio, without mentioning his name, by noting that although
it was the right thing in her opinion for the senators who spearheaded the
Senate effort to push for immigration reform, “I guess some of them are
paying a political price for it now.”
Clinton is all too aware of the strong anti-immigration reform sentiments
among some of the most passionate elements of the Republican base, and is
eager to highlight the difference between herself and the GOP during this
phase when the Republican candidates are catering more to the conservative
grassroots of their party, which dominates in primary states, than to
general election, middle-of-the-road voters.
“You know where I stand, and there can be no question about it,” she said. | g********s
发帖数: 3652 | | c****a
发帖数: 3173 | 3 政客就是这样的，为达到自己的目的豁出去啦。都不管这个国家死活了。。。 | l*********e
发帖数: 605 | | M*******e
发帖数: 303 | 5 旋即有帮华人会去网上请愿，克灵顿府前磕头了。
然后说不请愿不磕头的华人如何冷酷等等。。。 | a**n
发帖数: 313 | 6 同意，民主党里面骑墙无原则卖国者占主流，只有保守的共和党才能救美国
【在 l*********e 的大作中提到】
: 只有共和党才有可能救美国
| L*1
发帖数: 11537 | 7 那不就对了：非法移民现在还得花钱管，合法化了就不用管了。 | S******2
发帖数: 182 | 8 合法化后全申请救济。而且照样不交税。同时大量申请亲属移民，上世纪末美国大赦了
300万老莫，结果几年功夫变成1000多万靠亲属移民过来的，他们本来都靠现金挣活，
现在依然这样，不用交税，而且可以光明正大的申请救济了。同时鼓励更多的非法移民
涌入。除非拉美国家比美国发达，不然这种趋势会更明显，你就等着你不断的被提高交
税比例吧。
【在 L*1 的大作中提到】
: 那不就对了：非法移民现在还得花钱管，合法化了就不用管了。
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