Politico
By Adam B Lerner
June 5, 2015
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.
Though
the former secretary of state doesn’t speak Spanish, the article begins
by saying that it was written by Hillary R. Clinton and translated by
her campaign team.
“It’s the first article of its type written by the ex-secretary of
state,” the preamble reads.
“I will continue fighting for immigration reform,” Clinton said in the headline.
The
article was published Friday in El Mundo Las Vegas, a local
Spanish-language paper that has not yet posted it online. According to
the paper’s Twitter, it has existed
in the area for 35 years and reported on Hillary Clinton’s visit to
Rancho High School in Las Vegas on May 5.
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