Clinton reveals immigration reform vision at Downtown Brooklyn conference
Frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton revealed her vision to help immigrants and refugees find a secure landfall in the U.S. during her keynote address to delegates at the eighth annual National Immigration Integration Conference at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge in Downtown Brooklyn.
Clinton took the stage Monday amid a standing ovation and waited, smiling, while Illinois representative and long-term immigrant advocate Luiz Gutierrez, of Illinois’s fourth district, gave her an enthusiastic introduction.
The former senator from New York opened her remarks by reminding the audience of the role immigration has played in creating New York City’s vast and diverse metropolis: “We would not be New York without the generations of immigrants from everywhere,” she said.