2016 Postmortem

artislife

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28. These children

Sun Sep 27, 2015, 10:39 PM

Sep 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/15/us/questions-about-the-border-kids.html?_r=0

More than three-quarters of the children minors are from mostly poor and violent towns in three countries: El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Children from Mexico, once the largest group, now make up less than a quarter of the total. A small number come from 43 other countries.

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Hillary Clinton in 2003: "I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants." [View all] gobears10 Sep 2015 OP

This is the very thing that bothers me Rosa Luxemburg Sep 2015 #1

I remember this, I wonder if her supporters do? beam me up scottie Sep 2015 #2

Is there anything wrong with her current position? 6chars Sep 2015 #3

in my view... gobears10 Sep 2015 #4

She's pandering. HooptieWagon Sep 2015 #5

She, like Bernie, has evolved on issues.. none of the candidates can throw a stone.. NOT ONE!!! uponit7771 Sep 2015 #6

what was Bernie's position? 6chars Sep 2015 #10

Since you asked: TexasTowelie Sep 2015 #18

No, no, no! Please delete this as it doesn't fit the narrative. Metric System Sep 2015 #20

! TexasTowelie Sep 2015 #21

calm down retrowire Sep 2015 #24

Most of us already know this, we're just not properly outraged according to HC supporters. beam me up scottie Sep 2015 #26

The 2013 bill included funding for jobs training CanadaexPat Sep 2015 #31

please. provide links. Javaman Sep 2015 #11

It is good to see Clinton and Sanders evolve on this issue. NCTraveler Sep 2015 #7

where has sanders evolved on this issue? gobears10 Sep 2015 #14

See post #18. nt TexasTowelie Sep 2015 #19

Hillary in 2014 pinebox Sep 2015 #8

Yeah, that's more disturbing than the OP jfern Sep 2015 #17

These children artislife Sep 2015 #28

Some people will say anything for votes I guess Cheese Sandwich Sep 2015 #9

I'm not against anyone who is simply doing what I'd do if I were born in their circumstances. Shoulders of Giants Sep 2015 #12

She explained away 3 more flip-flops this morning on Meet the Press tomm2thumbs Sep 2015 #13

Well I guess now it's easy to see why she hides from the press Cheese Sandwich Sep 2015 #15

She didn't know tar sands was dirty? Geronimoe Sep 2015 #25

maybe her hands were 'wiped' of the tar sands, like with a cloth tomm2thumbs Sep 2015 #27

Did you notice she touched her nose artislife Sep 2015 #29

'Just because your child gets across the border doesn't mean your child gets to stay'! Wow, that is sabrina 1 Sep 2015 #16

Beware anchor babies! Enthusiast Sep 2015 #22

Coming from "We came, we saw, he died" this is especially shocking RufusTFirefly Sep 2015 #23

so her plan is "screw Central Americans at both ends"? since her ever-so-bloody-BRILLIANT decision MisterP Sep 2015 #34

That's why I cannot support her. Her policies are, other than the required ones to qualif as a Dem, sabrina 1 Sep 2015 #35

the policies used to qualify as Dem are of course readily dropped and clearly just MisterP Sep 2015 #38

The reaction to that awful statement around the world was pure horror. I remember cringing sabrina 1 Sep 2015 #39

we've been okay with all this for decades, and they thought we'd be okay with some decades more MisterP Sep 2015 #40

I did not read this, I did listen to the video. Raine1967 Sep 2015 #30

Sure pinebox Sep 2015 #32

And as I said already, I worked for some of Hillary's best fundraising friends in the Hamptons sabrina 1 Sep 2015 #36

The nerve of her wanting to uphold the law! Omnith Sep 2015 #33

Children generally are not breaking the law since they mostly don't have any say in it. Bernie sabrina 1 Sep 2015 #37