Hillary Clinton
comes out against recent deportation raids in break with Obama
Democratic
presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton joined her rivals Monday in opposing the Obama
administration's deportation raids targeting Central American immigrants
who entered the U.S. illegally and ignored deportation orders.
Speaking
at a forum aimed at young and minority voters in Iowa, Clinton said the raids had "sown fear and
division in immigrant communities across the country. People are afraid to go to work. They are afraid to send
their kids to school. They are afraid to go to the hospital, or even the
grocery store."
However,
on Monday she called for government-funded
counsel for unaccompanied minors in immigration court, as well as more funding
for asylum officers, translators and immigration judges.
"We
have laws and we must be guided by those laws,' Clinton said earlier, "but
we shouldn’t have armed federal officers showing up at
peoples’ homes, taking women and children out of their beds in the middle of
the night."
The
comments marked Clinton's clearest break with Obama, whom she served as
secretary of state during the president's first term.
The
first of the raids reportedly were conducted last week in Texas and Georgia,
with more expected across the country.
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