Slamming Trump, Clinton promises action on immigration

July 15, 2016 00:07

Hillary Clinton vowed to expand President Barack Obama's executive actions on immigration after the Supreme Court's deadlocked decision, calling on Latino voters to help stop what she called GOP rival Donald

Trump's efforts to "fan the flames of racial division."

"Donald Trump is running the most divisive campaign our lifetime. His message is that you should be afraid," she told a gathering of Latino activists on Thursday.

"We've got to come back twice as strong and twice as clear. We have got to say with one voice that Latinos are vital part of the American community."

A deadlocked Supreme Court decision last month effectively killed Obama's immigration plan to help some of the 11 million immigrants living in the US illegally.

Clinton vowed to restore the program which would have protected the parents of children who are in the country legally and expand benefits to people who were brought to the US as children.

Clinton has made revamping the country's immigration system a key plank of her presidential campaign. She has said she will introduce legislation during her first 100 days in office.

Speaking at the annual convention of the League of United Latin American Citizens today, Clinton promised to create a clearer immigration system where immigrants with "sympathetic cases" or a history of community service can be eligible for special status.

She also vowed to eliminate family detention centers, which hold undocumented immigrant families, including children and babies, for weeks or even months in what advocates call prison-like conditions while they wait for legal processing.

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