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Via Politico
Hillary Clinton published an op-ed Friday in a small Las Vegas-based Spanish-language newspaper about immigration, reassuring the Spanish-speaking Hispanic community in Nevada that they “can count on [her].”
Beginning with the stories of three young immigrants she met in North Las Vegas, one who started a business, one who wants to become a doctor, and one who wants to go to law school, Hillary articulated her support for comprehensive immigration reform and attacked unnamed Republican candidates for their stances.
“As a mother, grandmother, and American, I don’t know how a person can meet these young people that have contributed so much to their communities and represent so much potential for the future, and think of threatening them and their families with deportation,” Clinton wrote. “And still that is precisely what almost every Republican candidate would do.”
The article goes on to boast of Clinton’s senate record on immigration and to express support for a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants as well as deferred action for the families of so-called dreamers.
“Don’t deceive yourselves: when they speak of ‘legal status,’ it’s a code for ‘second class status’,” Clinton wrote of Republican immigration proposals that do not provide a pathway to citizenship.