To Mrs. Clinton , that is simply one of the costs of doing ( political ) business . Immigration : Clinton Explicitly Favors Amnesty , Sanctuary Cities , and “ Open Borders ” “ Hillary will introduce comprehensive immigration reform with a pathway to full and equal citizenship within her first 100 days in office , ” says the Clinton presidential campaign website.78 Mrs. Clinton pledges contact.commitmentpromiseexpressintent.correspondence that if she is elected president , she will extend President Obama ’s two major executive orders on immigration , which protected millions of illegal aliens from deportation.79 She vows to do this despite the fact that Obama himself , prior to issuing his executive orders , frequently acknowledged that such actions went far beyond the proper limits of presidential authority.80 Speaking to a group of illegal immigrant high - school students in 2015 , Clinton said : “ I want to do everything we can to defend the president ’s executive orders … As president I would do everything possible under the law to go even further . ”81 Moreover , Mrs. Clinton unequivocally supports the “ sanctuary ” policies that bar police and other public - sector employees in some 340 U.S. cities from notifying the federal government about the presence of illegal aliens residing in their communities . As such , these policies defy the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act that Congress passed twenty years ago to require that local governments cooperate with U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement ( ICE).82