During her visit to Germany for the Munich Security Conference, Hillary Clinton engaged in a discussion titled “The West-West Divide: What Remains of Common Values.”
In this panel, Clinton appeared to adopt a more assertive tone on the topic of border security than she had in the past.
“There is a valid reason to engage in discussions about issues like migration,” Clinton remarked.
She continued, “The situation has gone too far, causing disruption and instability. It’s crucial to address this in a humane manner, ensuring secure borders that don’t inflict suffering, while also fostering a robust family structure, which is the foundation of civilization.”
Clinton conceded that there are scenarios where a physical barrier is justified, although she was against significant expansion of the border wall during her 2016 presidential run.
Back then, she supported President Barack Obama’s executive actions aimed at deferring immigration enforcement for millions of children and parents residing illegally in the U.S., and she advocated for ending the policy of family detention.
Clinton also planned on continuing Obama’s policy of deporting violent criminals, but wanted to scale back immigration raids, which she said at the time produced “unnecessary fear and disruption in communities,” Fox News Digital previously reported.
In 2018, Clinton called out the Trump administration for its deportation policies.
“It is now the official policy of the US government — a nation of immigrants — to separate children from their families. That is an absolute disgrace. #FamiliesBelongTogether,” she wrote on X.
At the Newmark Civic Life Series in Manhattan last year, Clinton argued that immigrants, whether legal or illegal, have made the American economy exceptional by adding to the workforce.
“One of the reasons why our economy did so much better than comparable advanced economies across the world is because we actually had a replenishment, because we had a lot of immigrants, legally and undocumented, who had a, you know, larger than normal — by American standards — families,” she said.
