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Trump and Pence falsely suggest Clinton wants open borders with Mexico

The Republican vice presidential nominee noted a speech Clinton gave Brazil in 2013 as proof she'd have "open borders."

Trump and Pence falsely suggest Clinton wants open borders with Mexico
07/11/2016 |20:35AP |
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Donald Trump and Mike Pence are suggesting falsely that Hillary Clinton wants virtually no immigration controls.

Pence on the eve of Election Day again made the charge in Erie, Pennsylvania. The Republican vice presidential nominee noted a speech Clinton gave Brazil in 2013 as proof she'd have "open borders."

Republicans have seized on Clinton saying her "dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders." But she was talking specifically about the energy market, not immigration.

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Clinton does support a more lenient immigration policy than Trump's proposal for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. She would grant a path to citizenship to some people already in the U.S. illegally. She has not proposed open borders.