Hillary Draws Boos Over Immigration

Alex Spillius
London Telegraph
Monday December 3, 2007

Hillary Clinton has been booed by fellow Democrats as a new poll shows she had slipped behind Barack Obama, her main opponent in the race for the party's presidential nomination.

During an interview in front of 3,000 Democratic supporters, Mrs Clinton was jeered over her stance on contentious proposals to allow illegal immigrants to become citizens.

Senator Clinton, who addressed the meeting in Des Moines, Iowa, by telephone, was asked whether, if elected President, she would "make a decision to give undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship" during her first 100 days in office.

"I have been favouring a plan to citizenship for years," Mrs Clinton said.

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"I voted for it in the Senate, I have spoke out about it around Iowa and the country and in my campaign. And as President, comprehensive immigration reform will be a high priority for me."

But illegal immigrants would not be granted amnesty and would have to "earn" citizenship, she said, sparking sporadic booing from some Left-wing activists in the audience.

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