Posted on 03/10/2016 6:30:03 AM PST by grundle
Emotions ran deep as a clearly nervous mother, Lucía Quiej, stood in the audience and told both candidates her story: Her husband had been deported back to Guatemala three years ago, leaving her in the United States to care for their five children.
"What would you do to stop deportations and unite families?" Quiej, a resident of Homestead, 30 miles south of Miami, asked, in Spanish. Her husband, Andrés Jiménez, also a Guatemalan immigrant, was deported because he was stopped for a traffic violation and did not have a driver’s license.
The candidates onstage at the Univision/Washington Post Democratic presidential primary debate at Miami Dade College in Miami, were moved to promise their help.
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who got the woman's plight a little backwards (the translation seemed difficult to hear) and thought the mother had been separated from her children, said: "At the heart of my immigration policy, the essence of what we are trying to do is to unite families, not to divide families. The idea that a mother is living here and her children are on the other side of the border is wrong and immoral."
Clinton responded with praise and promises, too. "Please know how brave I think you are, coming here with your children to tell your story," she said, summing up the situation correctly. "I’ve heard stories like yours where your husband is deported, your children's father is gone, you are doing your very best... But it is time to bring families together."
Clinton matched Sanders' resounding crescendo in the end, saying: "I will absolutely protect your children, yourself, and try to bring your family back together."
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“I’ve got a better idea: deport the illegal alien wife.”
......Problem solved!
“I will absolutely protect your children, yourself, and try to bring your family back together.”
So would I, deport the family!
Read John 10:1
You sneak in, you are a THIEF.
So, if I sneak in to the movies alone, should the theater let my whole brood in for free in the cause of “family reunification”?
I am sure they were ALL born here. Thousands of taxpayer dollars spent every month to subsidize and support these leeches.
They always make it sound like we deported the husband and forced the wife and kids to stay here.
And her 5 children......who you know are sucking up all the welfare they can get.
Most likely. That’s probably the reason they stayed here. instead of returning with dad. Wants to get dad back now for even more money (dad might hold jobs under the counter).
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