Obama has been deporting illegal children along with their parents if ordered by a judge.
That is, after all, the law, and the president has a constitutional duty, crucial to the separation of powers, to see that the laws are faithfully executed.
Both Hill and Bern promised firmly they would not deport these children.
To be clear, these are not children born here to illegal immigrant parents - the so-called "anchor babies."
These are children who entered the country illegally, with or without their parents.
Moderators staged a tear-jerker moment, introducing a woman whose illegal husband had risked deportation.
The debate was in Miami, after all, and broadcast both in English and Spanish, with some of the questions in Spanish that was then translated for the candidates and broader audience.
Democratic debate, March 9
Mostly, it was the usual back and forth about Wall Street, Medicare for all, and federally funded free tuition at all state colleges and universities for undergrads.
(And is that only for undergrads, or also for grad and professional school students?)
But there were a couple of unexpected moments.
Moderators showed a tape of Bernie praising Castro's Cuba.
Sanders may also have hurt himself, at least in Florida, with comments that edged close to the state’s traditional political taboo: praising the Castro regime in Cuba.
Moderators played a 30 year-old tape in which Sanders – then the socialist mayor of Burlington, Vt. – praised Castro’s regime and criticized past efforts to overthrow him.
Sanders said that the Cuban regime was autocratic, but also praised its results in improving health care and education on the island.
He got cheers.
But when Clinton criticized Sanders for praising the communists in Cuba, the cheers were louder.
Yes, and Mussolini made the trains run on time, how swell was that?
Fair play for Cuba may work to this day with the leftier third of the Democratic Party, but it won't in the general if he gets that far.
And our Cold War leaders seriously screwed the pooch on that one, anyway, letting communism stand ninety miles off the coast while insisting ludicrously that we had to stop it in Vietnam - not Laos? not Cambodia? - on the other side of the world to prevent dominoes falling all the way across the Pacific to California.
Sanders to this day is on the wrong side of the issue of Cold War interventions in Latin America and embraces the Howard Zinn version of America's history in that region.
Howard Zinn, you may recall, was a communist, himself, and for a while actually a member of the CPUSA.
Through the most dangerous years of the Cold War he was an active red and a dedicated supporter of the Soviets and the spread of communism.
Reality Check: Sanders on the Monroe Doctrine
By Ryan Browne, CNN
Sanders blasted the history of U.S. foreign policy in Latin America.
Sanders was particularly critical of U.S. Cold War-era interventions against autocratic and leftist regimes in Cuba, Nicaragua and Guatemala.
He said, "Throughout the history of our relationship with Latin America, we've operated under the so-called 'Monroe Doctrine.' And that said that the United States had the right to do anything that they wanted to do in Latin America."
But is that what the Monroe Doctrine says?
The Monroe Doctrine originated in an 1823 speech President James Monroe made to Congress.
During the speech, Monroe addressed the emergence of new countries in South and Central America which had recently obtained independence from the Spanish Empire.
Monroe said, "The American continents ... are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers."
The policy in this speech would later be referred to as the Monroe Doctrine, which sought to prevent European powers from recolonizing the Western Hemisphere.
Sanders is likely referring to the 1904 Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
This was a policy of President Theodore Roosevelt which sought to have the U.S. intervene as a mediator in disputes between European and Latin American countries.
But the Monroe Doctrine certainly did not say that the U.S. "had the right to do anything they wanted."
Verdict: False.
Jorge Ramos, immigration activist and Univision star journo, asked Hillary to comment on Benghazi.
Her Republican critics are perfectly right about her lies about the attacks.
The truth was well-known to her and others in the government as the attacks occurred, but Obama, she, and the entire administration lied their butts off for days, pinning the whole affair on a silly internet video put up by some pathetic schmuck, whom they illegally and shamefully persecuted for quite some time after.
Later in Wednesday’s debate, moderator Jorge Ramos asked Clinton about the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, in which four Americans were killed – including the U.S. ambassador to Libya.
Clinton was the secretary of state at the time, and Republicans have raised questions about whether Clinton had properly prepared State Department installations in Libya for attacks, and about whether she had misled the public about the cause of the attack.
When Ramos began to ask the question, the debate’s audience began to boo at the mention of the word “Benghazi.”
He kept on, playing the tape of a relative of one of the four who died, who said she believed that Clinton had misled her about the attacks – saying they had been reactions to an anti-Islam video, rather than planned terrorist attacks.
“She’s wrong. She’s absolutely wrong,” Clinton said about the woman.
She said that the explanation she had given to the families was based on what she believed at the time – which was later found to be incomplete and partially incorrect.
“This was fog. This was complicated.”
And then there was this real zinger, too.
In the debate’s early going, moderator Jorge Ramos asked Clinton who had given her permission to use a private email server for government business.
“It was not prohibited. It was not in any way disallowed,” Clinton said.
“There was no permission to be asked.”
Would Clinton drop out of the race, Ramos asked, if an FBI inquiry into her use of those emails ended with her being indicted?
“That is not going to happen. I’m not even answering that question,” Clinton said.
All the same, what if?
I despise Hillary as a person and her adherence to endless global meddling as a foreign policy.
But I despise Bernie's Cold War leftism and oppose not just his adherence to socialism but his signature policies of Medicare for all and a federal financial takeover of state public university systems.
And I despise both of them for their wholly unreserved embrace of Democratic identity, victim, grievance politics.
Lesser evils, indeed.
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