Hillary Clinton reportedly sounded an awful lot like a presidential candidate at an immigrant rights protest on Friday night.
The failed presidential candidate excoriated the Trump administration’s immigration policy at a “Lights for Liberty” protest vigil in Chappaqua, New York, according to Kyle Olson of the American Mirror, who shared a video of Clinton’s speech.
Clinton claimed that it’s “not about open borders” and that “we can have secure borders and be a humane nation.”
“This is a policy that is infused with cruelty,” the former secretary of State said. “It is a cruel, unfeeling, unfair, mean-spirited policy.”
Hillary 2020?
Despite having lost the presidential election more than two years ago, Clinton hasn’t retired from politics. The Democrat was on the stump Friday night with her husband Bill in her residence of Chappaqua, where she spoke about the scourge of the Trump presidency and its alleged cruelty toward immigrants.
Speaking in a gazebo, Clinton told the crowd to “stand up for those who are voiceless.” The group Left on Main, which hosted the Chappaqua event, said approximately 100 to 150 people attended the Chappaqua event.
The protest was one of many “Lights for Liberty” protests organized over the weekend to protest President Trump’s planned weekend roundup of illegal immigrants. “Lights for Liberty” protesters in Aurora, Colorado spray-painted “Abolish ICE” over an American flag outside an ICE facility and replaced the red, white, and blue with a Mexican flag on Friday, the Washington Times reports. Groups supporting the “Lights for Liberty” protests retweeted the flagpole conquest.
But Rockland/Westchester Journal News reports that standing in front of a sign that said “No more” in Spanish and another that read “Resist” with a clenched fist symbol, Clinton insisted:
This is not about open borders. This is not about saying anybody can come to America for anything at any time — that’s not what it’s about. And those who try to make it are deliberately trying to confuse the issue. We can have secure borders and be a humane nation that treats people with dignity and with compassion.
Sure, the Democrats don’t want open borders. That’s why Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) shared advice with illegal immigrants on how to evade deportations over the weekend, right?
Solution: Money
Clinton went on to share her ideas on what needs to be done to solve the crisis at the border. The solution won’t shock: in brief, do nothing to actually enforce immigration law while pouring millions of dollars into sinkholes abroad.
The failed presidential candidate called for more immigration judges who are “put on the job with the purpose of actually following and enforcing the law” and a “data system” to track children separated from their families. Like many Democrats have done, Clinton blamed the Trump administration for families being separated, not the wanton recklessness of immigrants who jeopardize their children’s safety by crossing the border illegally.
President Trump’s approach — you know, actually enforcing the law — is not solving the problem, Clinton said. The real solution is to pour millions of dollars in aid into the “poorly governed, violent countries” that immigrants are leaving from. Clinton said that Americans should help Central American countries “with their economic problems” so “people wouldn’t feel compelled to leave.”
Clinton acknowledged that the spike in migration is “daunting” — 144,000 illegal immigrants were arrested at the border in May — but insisted, “We do have the capacity to respond.” The former secretary of State pointed to actions she took when she was America’s top diplomat that supposedly helped Central American countries get control of crime and violence and process asylum applicants from their home countries.
Clinton ended by condemning Trump’s ICE raids and agreed with another speaker that the suffering of poor migrants from Central America was causing her — a multi-millionaire — to feel “vicarious trauma.”
“I’m well acquainted with it [vicarious trauma],” Clinton said. “The fact that we’re all gathered here shows how resilient and flexible we are and we’ll take that into the political environment and make sure that in a few years, we will say we will never, ever see this kind of behavior by our government again.”
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