Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and running mate Ajamu Baraka took their campaign to Detroit on Saturday, Sept. 3 to discuss their policies and how it would impact Michigan residents.

Speaking at a press conference before a public rally at Bert's Warehouse Theatre in Eastern Market, Stein and Baraka addressed the American struggle for jobs, healthcare, survival of public schools and accessible water.

Stein said Detroit is leading the fight of the struggle against poverty and maintaining jobs instead of sending "corporate profits overseas."

"[The fight] to repossess its public schools, the fight against the very undemocratic takeover of the public school system which has driven it further into the ground," Stein said. "It's the fight of the residents to take back their water supply to have access to affordable water instead of these rates that have doubled over the years."

Baraka said the Detroit water shut-off has been internationally recognized as an ongoing violation in the country. More than 23,000 Detroit water customers were at risk for having their water shut off this year because of delinquent bills.

"These moves are a complete violation of international human rights law," Baraka said. "We were able to get various agencies of the United Nations involved in this situation here in Detroit."

Stein said if able to turn the White House into a "Green House," an immediate halt will be put on all new fossil fuel infrastructure.

"If the EPA was actually in power to protect the environment, there would be no additional fossil fuel facilities established in the United States of America, I applaud the referendum to ban fracking here in Michigan."

Stein also addressed the Green New Deal, a four-part program that would create jobs and create an environmentally-sound economy. Stein called the plan an anti-NAFTA and anti-Trans-Pacific-Partnership program which would create a jobs program to address climate change and create approximately 20 million jobs.

"The economy of Michigan has been hit hard by the trade deals that essentially exported good jobs, so many factories closed after NAFTA," Stein said. "It's really important that we bring back good jobs and productive jobs as opposed to the financialized economy which these trade deals have pushed us toward."

She added the nation spends $3 trillion a year on "what's not a healthcare system but a sick-care system" and that the deal establishes a healthy community across the nation with healthy food, healthy transportation merging with safe bike paths and sidewalks, and pollution elimination.

"[It] will focus on jobs for clean renewable energy, efficiency devices on public transportation and also on a healthy food system like Detroit is already leaning toward," Stein said. "It makes wars for oil obsolete, which deprives us for more than half of our discretionary national budget," adding that data recently released from the Congressional budget office indicated 76 percent of the nation's wealth is held by 10 percent.

Stein also said foreign policy based on economic and military domination created failed states, mass refugee migrations and terrorist threats, specifically noting allies in the Middle East engaging in war, adding "it's time to stop funding the violation of human rights."

On immigration, Stein said the nation should owe a welcoming path to citizenship after indicating Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump's previous remarks toward Muslims are not solution.

"Deporting immigrants is not worse than bombing Muslims around the world," Stein said. "It's not OK to deport Muslims and it's not OK to bomb their countries."

Trump also visited Detroit Saturday morning, sitting down for an interview at the Great Faith International Ministries, and joining in at a church service at the African American church.

Baraka called Trump's trip a "mischievous visit" to reach out to the African American community because Michigan is a battleground state.

"Donald Trump has nothing to say to workers here in the state," Baraka said. "We're here to counter the message of hate and divisiveness, we're not afraid of Donald Trump because we understand the potential power of the people."

"He sent his workers overseas, he created jobs overseas and mistreated his workers, subjecting them to dangerous conditions," Stein added.

The campaign has also brought in Bernie Sanders supporters to continue the momentum of a "people's movement." Baraka added there cannot be a viable democracy without a conscious and organized people.

Stein, who was the Green Party's presidential candidate in 2012, said she is also working to increase the Green Party's recognition, and insists all presidents debates be open to other parties.

"The rules [should] not be set on what is a private corporation run by the Democratic and Republican parties for the purpose of silencing political opposition," Stein said. "That is not what democracy looks like, that is what tyranny looks like."