Telling European Union leaders to fix immigration problems to contain growing nationalism on the continent 71-year-old former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton weighed in the thorny subject. French President Emmanuel Macron told a Paris audience at the Arc de Triomphe commemorating the 100th-year anniversary of WW I that nationalism was the “opposite of patriotism” and had to be challenged on the European continent. Macron attributed much of the 20th Century WW I and WW II to German nationalism, fueled by Germany’s bitter defeat in WW I. Urging the EU deal with immigrations Hillary puts her toe in the water for a possible 2010 presidential run. “Migration is what lit the flame,” said Hilllary. Since the Nov. 8 Midterm elections, Hillary looks like she’s testing the water for a 2020 presidential run. Hillary raises the immigration issue to prove she’s up to taking on Trump in two years.
Hillary isn’t likely to find much receptivity in the Democrat Party, considering she lost to Trump in 2016 when she was expected to win by a big margins. Hillary’s past baggage presents problems for her 2016 presidential /run, with her email scandal making too many headlines. She’s convinced herself that she can bury her past, when, in reality, it’s going to resurface like a nuclear submarine. Incoming Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham (R.S.C.) promised to hold hearings on what happened with the FBI investigation into Hillary’s emails, especially some 33,000 deleted emails, deliberately erased by Hillary, paying her technology people to erase them off her personal hard drive. Democrats don’t look forward to re-litigating Hillary’s legal problems nor do they want to deal with the amount of cash Hillary collected for the now defunct Clinton Foundation. Democrats look to start with a clean slate in 2020, not rehash only controversies.
Lecturing Europe about nationalism, telling French President Emanauel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel that they should take less Mideat immigrants to their countries makes Hillary look like Trump. Hillary wants to distinguish herself from Trump but immigration the U.S. and EU don’t have much equivalence. South, Central American and Mexican immigrants have a long history in the U.S as the largest immigrant group in the U.S. over he last 50 years. Latino culture has been incorporated into the U.S. multicultural fabric, something Europe, with its many languages and cultures, can’t accept. Europe’s immigration problems over the last eight years stemmed from the U.S. and EU battling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, supplying arms and cash to Syrian rebel groups. Unlike Latin American immigration in the U.S., Mideast immigration has problems assimilating to European culture, leaving many countries resisting EU mandates.
Hillary’s attempt to equate U.S. Latino immigration with the problems faced in Europe shows she understands little about nationalism. Syrian refugees flooding into Germany gave rise to the Alternative for Germany Party [AfD] and Marine Le Pen’s National Rally Party, both recognizing that Mideast and North Africa in refugees have difficulty fitting into European countries. Some EU states, Like Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary, reject completely Merkel’s open borders immigration policies. Merkel’s policy of f taking in nearly 1 million Syrians into Germany in 2015, drove British voters to vote April 21, 2016 to severe the U.K.’s ties to the E.U. Exist polls showed U.K. voters concerned about crime and terrorism stemming from letting too many Mideast immigrants into France and the U.K. Hillary wants to compare the EU to the U.S., making parallels but only for political purposes. Hillary’s critique of EU immigration policy tries to triangulate her policy with the GOP.
Telling the EU to curb its immigration policies to stem nationalistic movements, Hillayr tries to join Trump’s emphasis on refugees, while, at the same time, appeal to more moderate Democrat, Republican and independent voters. “I think Europe needs to get a handle on immigration because that is what lit the flame,” Hillary told the U.K ‘s Guardian newspaper. Backers of Brexit in the U.K. like Nigel Farage see through Hillary’s conspicuous attempt to put her toe in the 2020 water. Hillary walks a find line lecturing the EU about immigration policy, knowing it puts her in Trump’s camp. She’s done nothing since losing to Trump Nov. 6, 2016 other than rip Trump as a racist anti-Gay xenophobe, calling his politics White nationalist. Like other leaders resisting calls for Mideast immigration in the EU, Trump has simply wanted to enforce existing U.S. border laws, protecting the homeland against Mideast and Latino immigration threats.
No one can trust Hillary’s attempt to triangulate on the immigration issues, speaking on both sides of her mouth. One the one hand, she’s railed against Trump’s racist and xenophobic polices, on the other hand, she’s calling for the EU to clamp down on Mideast and North African immigration to help stop nationalist movements. Hillary can’t be taken seriously after backing for so long an open-border policy, ranting about Trump Mideast immigrant ban and, more recently, his new refugee rules. Let there be no mistake about Hillary’s liberal immigration policies, despite attempts to appeal to moderate voters. Democratic National Committee officials need to figure out what they’re doing in 2020, before they let the Clintons hijack the party. Hillary’s doesn’t really believe in clamping down on today’s immigration laws. She’s wants open borders to recruit newcomers, at the earlies possible time, to vote for Democrats, continuing the national trend away from Republicans. Hillary’s triangulation breaks new ground in today’s cynical partisan politics.
