Hillary Clinton Says She'll Help Provide Transportation Options for Separated Families
During OZY Fest, a two-day event in Central Park this weekend, Hillary Clinton sat down for an interview with nonprofit leader Laurene Powell Jobs and shared that she plans to help reunite immigrant families by providing transportation options.
“I’m going to be tweeting about this in the days to come, but if any of you work for an airline please direct-message me because these families will need vouchers and discounted tickets to be reunited over these thousands of miles,” she said on Saturday, according to the Associated Press.
As a result of the Trump administration's zero-tolerance policy at the border, thousands of children have been put into government custody while their parents are sent to immigrant detention centers until they can post bail. One major hurdle parents face once they are released from detention is that they often have to figure out how to get to the state in which their child is being held. If a parent is detained in Arizona, for example, and their child is moved to a foster care facility on the East Coast, they have to find ways to travel across the country with few resources. Activists and volunteers have offered to drive parents in some cases, but Clinton's solution could help to provide a quicker solution for immigrants who have access to their passports and are able to fly.
This isn't the first time that Clinton has discussed the controversial immigration policy: She's previously slammed it as “truly, unimaginably cruel." She also tweeted that the policy had created a "humanitarian crisis" and that "every parent who has ever held a child in their arms, every human being with a sense of compassion and decency, should be outraged." 1
The former Secretary of State also pulled no punches when it came to discussing Trump's recent summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, criticizing what appeared to be the president accepting Putin's denial of Russian interference in the 2016 election over information from U.S. intelligence agencies.
“It’s really distressing and alarming,” Clinton said. “It should concern every American of any political party because this was a direct attack on our democracy.”
Clinton was just one of the speakers of OZY Fest, which The New York Times described as "part music festival, part TED talk, part food fair." The event also included guests like Rose McGowan, Cynthia Nixon, and Michelle Wolf.
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