Posted on 07/27/2014 5:03:45 PM PDT by mandaladon
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she wanted more Central American citizens to apply for asylum to live in the United States from their home countries.
The Obama administration is reportedly considering setting up a satellite facility in Honduras to allow people to apply for asylum without coming to the United States, but Clinton said Guatemalans and El Salvadorans should have asylum facilities in their nations as well.
In an interview with Jorge Ramos on Fusion, Clinton said that she wanted facilities "over there" to "screen kids... before they get in the hands of coyotes, or they get on the beast, or they are raped."
To qualify for asylum, people must "demonstrate fear of persecution based on race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group," and Obama indicated in a meeting Friday with the presidents of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras that those fleeing poverty and "bad neighborhoods" would not be given asylum.
Clinton, who had previously said that illegal immigrant juveniles should be sent back, told Ramos that those who do not have a "family connection" to the United States should still be returned.
"Whoever was in the category of where they don’t have legitimate claim for asylum, where they don’t have some kind of family connection, those children should be returned to their families, and the families should be told that they should not be sending these young children on their own to face the dangers that exist on that travel," she said.
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No way.....
If you can apply for asylum in the country you’re fleeing, the situation isn’t dire enough to warrant asylum.
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Moreover, if the situation is that dire, then you're going to be long dead before you hear back from the Department of State.
Why don’t we just send them their checks down there? [/sarc]
Exactly. This is a joke. Change the welfare state, end urban anti-jobs regulations and taxes, and let the market absorb American workers first. Blacks are hurt the worst under our current system and its their “friends” with low expectations doing all the harm.
Yes they can apply and get their DNC membership on the ALGORE inspired internet.
Private Citizen Hillary Clinton throws in her 2 cents
Asylum? From what?
Make them stay home
Could it be that their governments are more stable and less Marxist than the other three?
‘Conservative’ commentator Geo. Wills sez “No Sweat’ We can assimilate them all. 20 to each county in the US. Deep Breath. No doubt he has been re-educated after some papers in Chicago and St. Louis dropped him after his column on the latest college rape craze. I guess they broke him.
She obviously hates children and hispanics.
No. Just bad enough for H! to jump in after she detects which way the wind is blowing.
We can use her to test how the internal polling is on issues
The Democrats really are looking to lock themselves in forever and to change the USA irrevocably into something akin to a South American Junta!
How do US citizens apply for asylum form an abusive dictator here?
My question as well.
I see pictures of these folks. They aren’t starving or “raggedy”. Even after walking thru Central America and Mexico in their bare feet.
So she’s another one who thinks the US should be equally miserable. Except for her of course.
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