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Especially the part about "deserve to be respected".
In other words, "for the last 6 or 7 months while I have been busy pandering for votes, I forgot to stop talking in public like I do at home."
Gotcha.
(Latinos in the USA are such a widely diverse group that I can't think of them as a single constituency or voting block.)
She recently returned to touting her vote to build a wall between the USA and Mexico. (That is when she used the term "illegal immigrant."
She has been in favor of comprehension immigration reform that punishes rather than grants amnesty. She sought to deport children refugees from Honduras and elsewhere to "send a message." And Elliot Spitzer has recently claimed that after she embarrassed herself by waffling on the drivers license issue in a debate with Obama (Obama was in favor of allowing immigrants who entered the country illegally have drivers licenses), her campaign people contacted Spitzer to tell him to make the issue go away.
Can you imagine the nonstop outrage if something like that had been revealed about Bernie? On DU it scarcely got noticed.
