{"id":11020,"date":"2015-11-24T17:17:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T22:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=11020"},"modified":"2018-12-28T13:55:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:55:25","slug":"hillary-clinton-apologizes-for-saying-illegal-immigrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/11\/24\/hillary-clinton-apologizes-for-saying-illegal-immigrant\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton Apologizes for Saying \u201cIllegal Immigrant\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"clinton\"<\/a>(While Being Interviewed by an Illegal Alien Tax Cheat)<\/b><\/p>\n

While serving in the Senate, Hillary Clinton told a New York radio audience that she is \u201cadamantly against illegal immigrants<\/a>.\u201d Now, not only is she not adamantly against illegal immigrants, she is adamantly against the term \u201cillegal immigrants<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

At a New Hampshire campaign rally earlier this month, Clinton made an \u201cinflammatory\u201d admission. \u201cLook, I voted numerous times when I was a senator to spend money to build a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in. And I do think you have to control your borders.\u201d<\/p>\n

Apparently, \u201cprevent[ing]illegal immigrants from coming in\u201d and controlling our borders is highly offensive to the small but vocal wing of the Democratic Party that Clinton is pandering to these days. A \u201cpoor choice of words,\u201d she confessed.<\/p>\n

Her mea culpa for uttering the phrase \u201cillegal immigrants\u201d was made to, of all people, Jose Antonio Vargas, who is not just an \u201cillegal immigrant,\u201d but has admitted to document fraud, lying to his employers, and who was recently hit with a $41,000 tax lien<\/a> by the IRS for failing to pay taxes<\/a> on money he earned while he was breaking the law forbidding him from working in this country.<\/p>\n

With the zeal of a prosecuting attorney, Vargas questioned Clinton, \u201cOn behalf of the organization I founded, Define American<\/a>, and the 11.7 million undocumented immigrants in this country \u2014 including myself \u2014 I am asking all the presidential candidates to recognize that #wordsmatter by committing to not using the term \u2018illegal\u2019 when referencing the undocumented population. Will you make that commitment?\u201d<\/p>\n

Clinton, who is trying to convince the American people that she has what it takes to be the leader of the free world, was duly contrite. \u201cYes, I will. That was a poor choice of words.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recommended Reading: White House Report Confirms President Obama’s Executive Actions Will Harm American Workers, Taxpayers<\/a><\/em>