New York Times
By Amy Chozick
March 21, 2016
Hillary
Clinton sharply denounced Sheriff Joe Arpaio, saying the Maricopa
County sheriff, who became the face of hard-line anti-immigration
policies because of his tactics here, had treated
his “fellow human beings with disrespect” and contempt.”
“It just makes my heart sink,” Mrs. Clinton told a rally of mostly Latino supporters on Monday. “We are better than that.”
Mr.
Arpaio, who rose to national prominence for his aggressive raids of
undocumented immigrants in Arizona, endorsed the leading Republican
presidential candidate, Donald J. Trump, in January
and campaigned with him in Arizona over the weekend.
Mrs.
Clinton did not mention Mr. Trump or the violence that erupted at his
rally in Tucson on Saturday, but she alluded to his “pitting groups of
Americans against each other.”
“It’s
just wrong. It’s not who we are,” Mrs. Clinton said. “I do believe we
are stronger and more effective when we are coming together.”
Mrs. Clinton reminded the audience to vote in Arizona’s Democratic primary on Tuesday.
“There
is an opportunity for everybody in Arizona to go out and vote for the
kind of future you want, the kind of president you want,” she said, when
a man interrupted with: “We want you!”
A coy Mrs. Clinton said, “Well, I want you to want me.”
Ever
since her sweep of victories in the six states that held primaries last
week, Mrs. Clinton has taken sharper aim at Mr. Trump. Hours before the
rally here, Mrs. Clinton lambasted the
Manhattan real-estate developer as inexperienced and naïve on foreign
policy.
“We
need steady hands, not a president who says he’s neutral on Monday,
pro-Israel on Tuesday and who-knows-what on Wednesday,” Mrs. Clinton
said early Monday in a speech at the American
Israel Public Affairs Committee, or Aipac, the nation’s most powerful
pro-Israel lobbying group.
Mr.
Trump also addressed Aipac in Washington, just as Mrs. Clinton spoke
here, vowing to “fight for comprehensive immigration reform,” another
issue that has sharply divided the political
landscape and animated voters on both sides.
On
Monday, Mrs. Clinton largely left the direct criticism of Mr. Trump to
her surrogates. Thomas E. Perez, the secretary of labor and a Clinton
supporter, poked fun at Mr. Trump as he announced
Mrs. Clinton, the former secretary of state. The presidency, he said,
isn’t about “whether you have big hands, but steady hands.”
Mark
Kelly, the astronaut and husband of former Representative Gabrielle
Giffords, who was shot at a Tucson shopping center in 2011, said Mr.
Trump was “bringing out the worst in our country:
anger, hatred, division.”
Arizona
will award just 75 delegates in Tuesday’s primary, but it represents a
battleground in the fight over immigration reform. Democrats believe Mr.
Trump’s remarks about immigrants and
his signature proposal to build a wall on the Mexican border could
galvanize Latinos to vote in larger numbers in November, potentially
turning states like Arizona and Colorado blue.
Mrs. Clinton has mocked Mr. Trump’s proposal to build a wall.
“He’s
talking about a very tall wall, right, a beautiful tall wall, the most
beautiful tall wall, better than the Great Wall of China,” Mrs. Clinton
said in the last Democratic debate, impersonating
Mr. Trump’s accent.
Senator
Bernie Sanders has crisscrossed Arizona holding large rallies, as Mrs.
Clinton has mostly dispatched surrogates, including Bill Clinton, to
campaign on her behalf here. Mr. Sanders
has criticized Mrs. Clinton for telling CNN in 2014 that the Central
American children that arrived on the border should be sent back.
As
Mrs. Clinton spoke here, the Sanders campaign blasted out an editorial
in The Arizona Republic blaming Bill Clinton’s signing of the 1996
Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act for the
current deportations.
Mrs.
Clinton’s choice of venues was symbolic: Carl Hayden high school, a
mostly Latino high school, became famous in 2004 after a group of
students, the sons of undocumented immigrants from
Mexico, beat M.I.T. students and won a national engineering competition
by building an underwater robot from Home Depot parts. The underdog
tale became a documentary, “Underwater Dreams.”
After
her rally, Mrs. Clinton planned to meet with representatives from many
of the state’s native tribes, including the Navajo Nation and the Hopi.
On Tuesday, in Washington State, Mrs.
Clinton plans to have a round-table discussion with tribal leaders in
Puyallup.
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