I've just watched a 30 minute MSNBC video interview by Brian Williams of Hillary Clinton which might be of interest to people with 'illegal' relatives in the U.S. Towards the end of the interview she was asked to talk about immigration. The video can be watched here
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/22690079#22690079
Full transcript here
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22688801/page/4/
From the transcript here are some excerpts of what she had to say:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/22690079#22690079
Full transcript here
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22688801/page/4/
From the transcript here are some excerpts of what she had to say:
MSNBC Interview
.....And then we’ve got to deal with what is 12 to 14 million people here illegally. And I hear the voices on the Republican side. I hear them in the broadcast media calling for deportation, round them up. And whenever I hear that, Brian, I say, “Fine, you tell me how we will do that.”........
It would take more than $200 billion to fund that kind of intrusive privacy shredding event that I think Americans would never stand for. And what I wanna do is to say let’s get real here. These people need to be brought out of the shadows and registered. If they’ve committed a crime here or in the country they came from, they should be deported immediately, no questions asked.
If, however, the vast majority who have worked hard, their kids are in school here, if they wish to have a pass to legalization, they’ve got to meet some tough conditions. They do have to pay a fine because they came here illegally. They did break the law. They have to pay back taxes. It might take years but they’ve got to make amends there. They have to begin to try to learn English. And we’ve got to do more to help them to try to learn English......
But once they are registered and once they sign on to these conditions we have imposed, they will become legal so that employers will not be able to exploit them or, frankly, undercut the job market and prevent Americans who are here legally from having these jobs. I don’t see any alternative. And that’s what I will work for immediately upon becoming President.