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While in Germany for the Munich Security Conference, Hillary Clinton participated in a panel titled, “The West-West Divide: What Remains of Common Values.”
During the panel, Clinton appeared to take a hard line on her previous stance on border security.
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“There’s a good reason to have a debate about things like immigration,” Clinton said.
Hillary Clinton calls for ‘secure borders that don’t hurt and kill people’ during a panel at the Munich Security Conference. (Munich Security Conference, David Peinado/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“It has gone too far, it is disturbed and disturbing, and it needs to be resolved in a humane way with secure boundaries that do not torture and kill people and how we will have a strong family structure because it is the basis of civilization,” he added.
Clinton acknowledged that there are places where a physical barrier is appropriate but argued against a major expansion of the border wall during her 2016 presidential campaign.
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At the time, he supported then-President Barack Obama’s actions that reversed the illegal forced entry of millions of children and parents into the country and sought to end the practice of family detention.
“It has gone too far, it is disturbed and disturbing, and it needs to be resolved in a humane way with secure boundaries that do not torture and kill people and how we will have a strong family structure because it is the basis of civilization,” he added. (Amy Sussman/Getty Images)
Clinton also planned to continue Obama’s policy of deporting violent criminals, but wanted to roll back the immigration crackdown, which she said at the time created “unnecessary fear and disruption in communities,” Fox News Digital previously reported.
In 2018, Clinton called out the Trump administration for its deportation policies.
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“It is now the official policy of the US government – the nation of immigrants – to separate children from their families. That is an absolute disgrace. #FamiliesBelongTogether,” he wrote on X.
Clinton argued in 2018 that immigrants, whether legal or illegal, make the American economy different by adding workers. (Christian Torres/Anadolu via Getty Images)
At the Newmark Civic Life Series in Manhattan last year, Clinton pointed out that immigrants, whether legal or illegal, have made the American economy different by adding workers.
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“One of the reasons our economy has done better than most developed economies around the world is because we had a lot of immigrants, both legal and undocumented, who had larger, you know, larger than average – by American standards – families,” he said.
