Hillary Clinton's Latino problem

Yet Bill Clinton also approached the immigration issue like a hardline restrictionist, speeding up deportations, militarizing the U.S.-Mexico border south of San Diego with Operation Gatekeeper in 1994 and signing the dreadful Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, which makes it easier to deport people and harder for them to return.

Latino voters care about jobs, education, health care, and the economy just like other voters. But many also care about immigration, especially at moments like this when immigrants—or, more accurately, in the case of Central Americans, refugees—are under siege by everything from governmental inefficiency to militia groups amassing on the U.S.-Mexico border to fend off the child invasion.

On the immigration issue, the Clintons have never been part of solution. They’ve been too busy being part of the problem.