Hillary Backs Refugee Screening In-Country For CA Kids - Breaks With WH On Changing Trafficking Law [View all]

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Hillary Clinton supports creating a refugee screening process for Central American children in their home countries to allow more to come the U.S legally, and prevent them from undertaking the dangerous trek north.

"If we don’t have a procedure, it’s not going to stop, more kids are going to come," Clinton told Fusion's Jorge Ramos on Friday.

Clinton, who served as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, said that screening applicants for refugee status in their home countries would allow U.S. officials to evaluate a child's case “before they get in the hands of coyotes, or they get on the beast (train), or they are raped.”

"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.

Clinton acknowledged that, in some cases, a child's deportation could bring them great harm. "There may be some kids who definitely would face terrible danger if they returned," she said

read: http://fusion.net/justice/story/hillary-clinton-backs-refugee-screening-abroad-central-american-895022


She differed from President Barack Obama and many Republicans on whether to change the 2008 trafficking law that keeps unaccompanied minors from countries other than Mexico and Canada from being quickly deported.

While Obama initially said he wanted Congress to change the 2008 law, he did not propose legislative changes in his $3.7 billion funding request earlier this month, angering Republicans who say he flip-flopped on the issue. The administration has, however, continued to back changing the law at a later date.

"I don't agree that we should change the law," Clinton said. "That's why I'm advocating an appropriate procedure, well funded by the Congress, which they are resisting doing, so that we can make individual decisions."

"Some of them should be sent back," she said, adding that those without a legitimate claim for asylum or some type of family connection should be deported and returned to their families.

read: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/28/hillary-clinton-border-crisis_n_5626584.html?utm_hp_ref=politics


Watch the full video at Fusion.