Jorge Ramos Asks Hillary Clinton: Do You Have a ‘Latino Problem?’
In a preview of a longer interview that will air on Fusion’s America with Jorge Ramos Tuesday night, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton weighed in on the current debate over undocumented minors flooding over the border from Central America, telling the host that without further action from Congress, “more kids are going come.” But first, she addressed her possible “Latino problem.”
“Do you think you have a Latino problem?” Jorge Ramos asked Clinton.
“I hope not!” she replied, laughing enthusiastically, before Ramos’ deadpan demeanor caused her to turn more serious. “I never have before, so I hope not,” she added. “Obviously, we have a lot of problems that we have to address.”
Ramos explained that he was asking because Clinton recently said of the Central American children during her CNN town hall interview that we as a country need to “send them back.”
“Well, that was sort of a short circuit of what I have said overall,” Clinton said, explaining that she was referring more to “migrant children” than “refugee children.” While both deserve “as much love” as we can give them, she said there should be separate “procedures” for each group.
Ramos grilled Clinton on her stance, asking her specifically who she would deport. If children don’t have a legitimate case for asylum or an existing family connection in the U.S., then Clinton said they “should be returned to their families.”
“We send kids back all the time,” she said, seemingly admitted that some of those children who are sent back to their home countries could be in danger. “That’s why we need a process to determine who falls into [the refugee] category.” She argued that the U.S. should help set up a screening process in places like Honduras and Guatemala that determines whether children are in need of asylum before they even make the dangerous journey across the border.
“If we don’t have a procedure, it’s not going to stop, more kids are going to come,” Clinton said.
Watch video below, via Fusion:
[Photo via screengrab]
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