Democratic presidential front- runner Hillary Clinton has denounced Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump for doubling down on his plans to deport millions of immigrant families, saying his "hateful" language needs to be repudiated.
"Now, every election is a choice, and just yesterday, Donald Trump doubled down on his plan to create a deportation force to round up millions of people. That's actually what he said," she said at a campaign rally in Los Angeles.
"He has pledged in his first days in office to scrap DACA and DAPA and to finalise a design for a giant wall on the border. Well, the best way to prevent that from happening is to make sure he never gets near the White House," she said as the audience booed the Republican leader.
The former secretary of state urged her supporters to recognise that the kind of language coming from Trump is hateful, and needs to be repudiated.
"We not only have to work for comprehensive immigration reform, we have to recognise that the kind of language coming from Donald Trump is hateful, and we need to repudiate it," he said amidst cheers from the audience.
Clinton, currently campaigning in California where the primary is scheduled for June 7, said the next president has to meet three tests: Can he actually help families get ahead and stay ahead? Can he keep Americans safe? And can he bring the country together?
"Well, Donald Trump fails all three of those tests. With all the challenges we face in America and in the world, we can't have a loose cannon in the Oval Office. That is a risk we cannot afford," she said, in a repeat of what she told CNN a day earlier.
As president, creating good jobs and raising incomes will be her number one priority, Clinton said.
"We will follow the lead of California and raise the minimum wage across America. We will guarantee equal pay for women's work. I think that's way overdue.
"I will do everything I can to make the economy work for everybody, to help more people lift themselves out of poverty, lift themselves into the middle class, and go as far as their hard work and talents will take them," she said.
"President (Barack) Obama said it extremely well, both in
what his speech discussed in the convention, what his press conferences since have pointed out. This is a crossroads election. There is so much at stake," she said.
Clinton said she will bring the country together. "I think we have three overarching goals: we need more economic opportunity, we need to protect our national security and we have got to work toward American unity," she said.
"I have been trying to understand what it is that has driven people to support Trump and I've met with some people, I have listened to them," she added.
"I want to be the President for all Americans. I want to lift up and give everybody a chance to pursue their dreams. And that means people who are supporting him," Clinton said.
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Meanwhile, US Vice President Joe Biden said that some of the things that Trump does or says defies logic.
"I can't figure out Mr Trump. I've known him a while, not well," Biden told reporters travelling with him in Florida where he campaigned for his Democratic party candidates and attended fund raising events.
"You know, it's true that when you've never run for public office before, going out there and getting on the biggest stage in the world, you're bound to make mistakes. But some of the things that he does and says sort of defy logic for me," Biden said.
The Vice President in particular referred to Trump's comments on Russia, NATO and nuclearisation.
"Especially his comments on nuclearisation, nuclear weapons, Russia - I mean, it borders on - I don't think he intentionally wants to undermine our security. But I've spent more time working on NATO and US-Russia relationships than anybody, literally, left in the United States Congress," Biden said.
"It has been (Russian President Vladimir) Putin's objective from day one to prevent a Europe -- which we've agreed is our goal -- a Europe whole, free and secure, and he's been going out of his way to try to break up the EU and break up NATO," he noted.
"The stuff that Mr Trump is saying, the greatest military alliance in all for human history -- NATO -- and after almost 70 years, and he's talking about he's not sure he's going to honour our commitment?" he said.
Observing Trump is a showman here, Biden said this is not how the Republican presidential candidate is viewed overseas.
