Hillary Clinton’s ‘Brave’ New Stance on Immigration (VIDEO)

[azmom]

http://www.latinorebels.com/2016/02/18/hillary-clintons-brave-new-stance-on-immigration-video/

Both of Clinton’s prescription have been carried out to cruel effects. At the behest of Washington, Mexico launched a crackdown on its southern border with Guatemala and began conducting raids on migrant safe houses, making the trek across Mexico even more perilous than it was before. Last month a Senate subcommittee published the findings of a six-month investigation into the placement of detained child refugees with relatives in the United States as they await a judge’s decision as to whether they can stay in the United States or not. The report found that at least a dozen child refugees placed by the Department of Health and Human Services were the victims of human traffickers and at least another dozen suffered various forms of abuse at the hands of the very people charged with their care. One 16-year-old girl was released into the care of a person claiming to be her cousin but who was actually a sex trafficker, with whom the girl was forced to have sex.

Perhaps the only thing “brave” about Hillary’s latest video is her attempt to appear as a defender of immigrant families. She’s far from it.

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1. Recommend. n/t

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2. I was glad they asked her about this in the debate

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3. Why Hillary Clinton's Argument For Keeping Children From Coming To The U.S. Doesn't Work

“I made it very clear that those children needed to be processed appropriately," Clinton said at the PBS Newshour Democratic debate. "But we also had to send a message to families and communities in Central America not to send their children on this dangerous journey in the hands of smugglers.”

The courts have found the blanket policy of “sending a message,” however, constitutionally deficient. The term is government-speak for general deterrence -- using detention, deportation and other practices against children and families with the goal of dissuading other children and families from fleeing their countries and coming to the U.S.

In February last year, a federal judge in Washington frowned on the practice and ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement to stop relying on deterrence in the detention of mothers and children with a “credible fear” of violence and persecution in their homelands.

The government’s “policy of considering deterrence has profound and immediate consequences for Central American asylum seekers detained as a result,” the court said in its decision. The move forced ICE to abandon the practice in May -- at least with respect to children and families seeking refuge in the U.S.

In another case out of California, a federal judge chastised the Department of Homeland Security last July for relying on deterrence as a detention rationale, calling it “lacking in scientific rigor.”
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/clinton-plan-migrant-children_us_56be15b5e4b0c3c5505109cd

[azmom]

4. Constitutional deficient and morally deficient.

But, she told Trump "Basta" so latinos should vote for her.

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5. K&R