Hillary Clinton's Immigration Misstep
We already knew the immigration issue was a tough one for Republicans. They have a hard time opposing legal status for the undocumented without sounding anti-Hispanic. They insist their leaders take loyalty oaths to oppose an “amnesty,” alienating them from the mainstream. They have to balance supporting a business community that wants more immigration with coddling a nativist wing that wants less.
Yet, recent events along the U.S.-Mexico border show that immigration also trips up Democrats. Consider the trouble it's causing Hillary Clinton. As the presumptive 2016 presidential candidate learned recently, navigating these choppy waters is not child's play.
In the last nine months, about 47,000 unaccompanied children and teenagers have come across the border. About three-fourths are from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.
Many Americans think the border kids are being pushed north by their parents. But many of the children are being “pulled” by parents who already live here. They were sent by grandparents, aunts, uncles. Here in the United States, families are being reunited.
Yet Clinton glibly said during a recent CNN town hall that these young people “should be sent back” because “we have to send a clear message: Just because your child gets across the border, that doesn't mean the child gets to stay.”
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