New York Times
By Maggie Haberman
July 14, 2015
Surrounded
by immigrants from several countries, Martin O’Malley, the Democratic
presidential hopeful, pledged on Tuesday to go further on overhauling
the immigration
system than any other candidate, in a clear effort to present a
contrast with Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Mr.
O’Malley, speaking at an event at the New York State Immigrant Action
Fund in New York, ticked off several proposals that he would carry out
as president, vowing to
close detention centers where those on the verge of being deported are
often held and saying that the nation’s enduring symbol should not be a
“barbed-wire fence.”
Calling
the current immigration system “inhumane,” he also characterized
overhauling immigration as a basic economic issue, suggesting it could
help the nation get back
on a solid footing on jobs and wage growth.
For
Mr. O’Malley, the former governor of Maryland, the issue of immigration
is a familiar one. He has spoken repeatedly about his support for
allowing illegal immigrants
to get driver’s licenses, an issue that tripped up Mrs. Clinton, then a
senator from New York, in a Democratic presidential primary debate in
2007.
But
he also clashed with the White House in 2014 amid a surge of migrants,
many of them children, illegally coming into the United States from
Central America to escape
violence at home. Mr. O’Malley faulted the White House for its policies
of returning the children to their home countries, something that Mrs.
Clinton expressed support for during her book tour for her memoir, “Hard
Choices.”
Mr.
O’Malley vowed to work on resolving a deadlock over the issue in
Congress, where comprehensive immigration overhaul efforts have stalled.
Several
of the immigrants who appeared with Mr. O’Malley talked about their own
stories of hardship, explaining their desire to live legally in the
United States.
Mr.
Obama last fall took executive action to block millions of
deportations. Mrs. Clinton has said she would go further than the
president did, but has not laid out a
concrete plan yet.
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