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Hillary Clinton smiles during her remarks at a campaign rally for Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown in Maryland. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

Hillary Clinton was repeatedly heckled during a campaign stop on Thursday after immigration reform activists took turns to interrupt her speech before being escorted out of an auditorium by police.

The coordinated protest during a rally for Maryland gubernatorial candidate Anthony Brown, involved about two dozen students dotted around the audience who intermittently shouted at Clinton and held aloft placards that read Put Families Over Politics.

Hecklers are not uncommon at political rallies and Clinton, a strong advocate of comprehensive immigration reform who enjoys strong popularity ratings among Latinos, has been pursued repeatedly by the campaign group United We Dream, which claimed responsibility for the protest.

Activists affiliated with the group interrupted Clinton five days ago, in North Carolina. They did the same again at a fundraiser in New York last month.

However reporters who followed Clinton as she has criss-crossed the nation during this election cycle, described Thursdays intervention as the most sustained heckling campaign to date.

Mario Carillo, a spokesman for United We Dream, said that while he recognised Clinton supported immigration reform, she had been pretty silent on whether Barack Obama should use his executive authority to further suspend deportations against undocumented migrants.

For the most part, Clinton looked unperturbed, and took the interruptions in her stride. With the possible exception of her husband, former president Bill Clinton, few Democratic surrogates have been as in demand in the midterm campaigns as Hillary Clinton.

In the last seven weeks, she has stumped in Kentucky, New York, New Hampshire, Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maine, North Carolina and turned up twice in Iowa and Colorado.

This weekend, Clinton will travel again to both Kentucky and New Hampshire, in support of Democrats Alison Lundergan Grimes and Jeanne Shaheen. She will also squeeze in a stop in New Orleans to back Louisianas Mary Landrieu.

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