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    Hillary Clinton: Unaccompanied Child Migrants Should Be Deported

    Hillary Clinton: Unaccompanied Child Migrants 'Should Be Sent Back' To Central America

    Published June 18, 2014 Fox News Latino


    • FILE -This May 6, 2014 file photo (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) (A2014)


    In separate television interviews with Fox News and CNN on Tuesday, Hillary Rodham Clinton faced a number of difficult questions, among them about immigration and the recent surge in unaccompanied minors crossing the border with Mexico illegally.

    After talking about the need for comprehensive immigration reform, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour asked the former Secretary of State a number of times what she would do about the child immigrants if she were president, but the presumed 2016 candidate at first dodged the question.

    We have to send a clear message: Just because your child gets across the border, that doesn’t mean the child gets to stay.
    - Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

    Clinton spoke about the cause for the increase – "the main reason I believe why that’s happening is that the violence in certain of those Central American countries is increasing dramatically” – and expressed the conviction that the U.S. needs to do more to help Mexico secure its own southern border.

    “Should they be able to stay here?” Amanpour pressed again, adding, “It’s safer.”


    “It may be safer, but that’s not the answer,” Clinton responded.


    “So you’re saying they should be sent back now,” Amanpour said.


    “They should be sent back as soon as it can be determined who responsible adults in their families are,” Clinton finally admitted.


    The former First Lady went on to add that, “We have to send a clear message: Just because your child gets across the border, that doesn’t mean the child gets to stay... We don’t want to send a message that is contrary to our laws, or we'll encourage more children to make that dangerous journey.”


    The likely Democratic presidential candidate addressed immigration and a range of issues in the two interviews as part of a promotional tour for her new book, "Hard Choices," about her four years as President Barack Obama's secretary of state.


    Clinton was asked extensively about the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the American mission in Benghazi, Libya. She said that many questions remain unanswered about the deadly attack, even as U.S. authorities have captured their first suspect in the case.


    She said she was still seeking information on the attacks that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans and led to numerous investigations. But she defended the Obama administration's response to the incident and said the State Department tried to respond to the fast-moving attacks that have become a focal point of criticism from Republicans.


    "We want to know who was behind it, what the motivation of the leaders and the attackers happened to be. There are still some unanswered questions," Clinton said on CNN. "It was, after all, the fog of war."


    Clinton urged the Obama administration to remain cautious about working with Iran to combat fast-moving Islamic insurgents in Iraq. And she said it was unclear whether it would have turned the tide in Syria if the U.S. had tried to help moderate rebel forces there, as she once advised.


    Her appearances came hours after the Obama administration announced the capture of a Libyan militant suspected in the Benghazi attacks. Clinton said the capture showed the U.S. has an "an unwavering commitment" to go after anyone who would attempt to harm Americans.


    A significant portion of the Fox News interview focused on Clinton's response to the Benghazi attack, reflecting criticism among Republicans that Obama and Clinton were disengaged during the incidents and later misled voters about the causes of the attacks. A new GOP-led House select committee on Benghazi could extend the issue into the next presidential campaign.


    The probe could figure into Clinton's political future if she seeks the White House again; Clinton said during the Fox interview that "I know you and your viewers have a lot of questions." But she said the U.S. often sends people into dangerous places to represent its national security interests and she didn't think that should change. "I don't think we should be retreating from the world," she told CNN.


    The interviews also touched on several issues brewing in Congress, including investigations into the Internal Revenue Service's scrutiny of political groups seeking tax-exempt status and efforts to curb gun violence.


    Clinton suggested the IRS case could benefit from a "fair-minded" investigation, even though Obama has called it a "phony scandal." Clinton said, "Anytime the IRS is involved, for many people, it's a real scandal."


    She reiterated her support for expanding background checks for firearm purchases and reinstating the ban on assault weapons.


    "We cannot let a minority of people — and that's what it is, it is a minority of people — hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority of people," she said on CNN.


    Clinton took a wait-and-see attitude on medical marijuana and the legalization of the recreational use of pot in Washington state and Colorado. Asked whether she would partake, Clinton laughed. "I didn't do it when I was young. I'm not going to start now."

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    Hillary Clinton Defends Call To Deport Child Migrants

    But legal groups say virtually all unaccompanied minors from Central America qualify for humanitarian relief.

    Roque Planas Reporter, Latino Voices, The Huffington Post
    Posted: 08/19/2015 01:56 PM EDT

    Hillary Clinton this week defended her call to deport children from the U.S. who are fleeing violence in Central America.
    Speaking at a press conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday, the former secretary of state and candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination said that deporting the children, many of whom are seeking asylum, would send a “responsible message” that would deter Central American families from sending their children to the United States.

    “Specifically with respect to children on the border, if you remember, we had an emergency, and it was very important to send a message to families in Central America: Do not let your children take this very dangerous journey,” Clinton said.


    Now that the border crisis has largely passed, however, Clinton said U.S. immigration authorities should focus on expediting the deportation cases of children and people locked in family detention.


    “Now I think we have a different problem,” she said. “Because the emergency is over, we need to be moving to try to get people out of these detention centers, particularly the women and children. I think we need more resources to process them, to listen to their stories, to find out if they have family in this country, if they have a legitimate reason for staying. So I would be putting a lot of resources into doing that, but my position has been and remains the same.”


    Unaccompanied minors from countries other than Mexico are generally not placed in immigrant detention. Instead, U.S. law requires authorities to transfer them to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and release them to a guardian in the U.S. if possible.


    Virtually all the unaccompanied minors who crossed into the United States from the violence- and poverty-plagued Central American countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras last year can make a credible claim for humanitarian relief under U.S. law, according to Jonathan Ryan, the executive director for RAICES, a Texas nonprofit that coordinates pro bono representation for immigrants.


    Last year, RAICES carried out more than 2,400 legal intakes for unaccompanied minors in need of lawyers. The group found that 63 percent of these minors were “obvious winners” for claims of asylum or other relief because their circumstances closely paralleled those seen in other, earlier cases in which asylum had been awarded. Even among the rest of the minors, Ryan said the vast majority still had a fighting chance to move forward with a claim for humanitarian relief.


    Those assessments are playing out in court. RAICES has won 98 percent of the cases for unaccompanied minors its lawyers have taken on, Ryan says.


    “Last summer, when politicians from both parties were making statements that these children were not refugees, that these children all needed to be sent home, my agency was busy speaking with these children,” Ryan told HuffPost. “The same statements that Clinton made last summer are the same statements being made to legitimize the family detention that she is now apparently against. Whether it’s [Republican presidential candidate] Mr. [Donald] Trump or Mrs. Clinton, these knee-jerk statements don’t do anything to protect children, and they certainly don’t do anything to protect vulnerable refugees.”


    Ashley Feasley, the advocacy director for Catholic Legal Immigration Network, said her group has had a similar experience.


    “We at CLINIC know from representing immigrant children that when they have access to legal representation, they’re usually able to obtain protection under U.S. law -- and that’s because in many cases, these children are fleeing persecution, targeted violence and gang recruitment,” Feasley told HuffPost. “The emergency for unaccompanied minor children is not over now that it’s moved away from the border. It’s now in our courtrooms. We have vulnerable children who cannot access justice in our legal system today. And that’s an emergency.”


    The campaign for former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, who is competing with Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, pounced on her comments.


    “When thousands of children fleeing death and drug gangs in Central America sought refuge at the U.S. border, [Clinton's] first instinct was to send them home,” O’Malley campaign spokeswoman Gabriela Domenzain said in a statement Tuesday. "Then, facing pressure for taking a position that would essentially ensure sending children back to certain death, she backtracked. Now today, she is standing by her initial comments that the children should have been sent back immediately. Leadership is about forging public opinion, not following it.”


    The Clinton campaign did not immediately return a request for comment on Domenzain's statement.


    O’Malley has called for immigrant detention to be drastically scaled down, and has characterized the facilities where immigrant families are locked up as "detention camps."

    At the height of the border crisis last year -- in which some 68,000 unaccompanied minors crossed illegally into the United States, along with a similar number of female-headed family units, upending the national immigration debate in the process -- Clinton said in an interview with CNN that the children should be deported.

    “It may be safer [for them to stay], but that’s not the answer,” Clinton said then, adding that “they should be sent back.”

    Clinton also said the U.S. should do more to deal with the violence in Central America so that families won’t feel compelled to send their kids to the United States.


    That was before Clinton had officially announced her candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. Since then, she has taken a more liberal stance on immigration, saying that she would expand upon the Obama administration’s executive actions on immigration if elected and that she supports comprehensive immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship for qualified undocumented immigrants.

    Her campaign, however, has repeatedly declined to answer emails from HuffPost about whether she thinks family detention centers should be closed.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b055a6dab24c2f

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    “They should be sent back as soon as it can be determined who responsible adults in their families are,” Clinton finally admitted
    Why must we find out who their family adults are? I say send directly to a government representative of the country's child welfare services. Let them figure out who and where the family members are.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MW View Post
    Why must we find out who their family adults are? I say send directly to a government representative of the country's child welfare services. Let them figure out who and where the family members are.
    Absolutely. That's exactly whose responsibility it is, the jurisdiction of the territory of the authority to which they belong.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MW View Post
    Why must we find out who their family adults are? I say send directly to a government representative of the country's child welfare services. Let them figure out who and where the family members are.
    I think they ought to round them up and drop about 1,000 a day at their nearest Consulate.
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