Democratic presidential primary front-runner Hillary Clinton said the federal government ought to stop conducting raids to rout out and arrest illegal immigrants because they're inhumane.
"Our immigration enforcement efforts should be humane and conducted in accordance with due process," she said in a statement. "That is why I believe we must stop the raids happening in immigrant communities."
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Her comments, made at the Iowa "Brown & Black Forum," came on the heels of a handful of federal raids that began over the New Year's weekend that led to the arrest of 121 or so people, NBC News reported. Attorneys have been able to obtain stays of deportation for several of the individuals.
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"We have laws and we must be guided by those laws, but we shouldn't have armed federal officers showing up at peoples' homes, taking women and children out of their beds in the middle of the night," she said, NBC News reported.
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Clinton also called for new laws that allowed for the federal government to provide lawyers to illegals – a practice that's currently banned.