Hillary Clinton calls for secure borders at Munich Security Conference
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While in Germany for the Munich Security Conference, Hillary Clinton participated in a panel discussion titled “The West-West Divide: What Remains of Common Values.”
During the panel, Clinton appeared to take a stronger approach to her previous stance on border security.
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“There’s a legitimate reason to discuss issues like immigration,” Clinton said.
Hillary Clinton called for ‘safe borders that don’t torture and kill people’ at the Munich Security Conference panel. (Munich Security Conference, David Peinado/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“It’s gone too far, it’s been destructive and destabilizing, and it needs to be fixed in a humane way, with safe borders that don’t torture and kill people, and how we have a strong family structure because it’s at the core of civilization,” he added.
Clinton acknowledged there are places where a physical barrier is appropriate, but opposed large-scale border wall expansion during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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At the time, he supported then-President Barack Obama’s executive actions that illegally delayed immigration enforcement against millions of children and parents in the country and wanted to end the practice of family detention.
“It’s gone too far, it’s been destructive and destabilizing, and it needs to be fixed in a humane way, with safe borders that don’t torture and kill people, and how we have a strong family structure because it’s at the core of civilization,” he added. (Amy Sussman/Getty Images)
Clinton also planned to continue Obama’s policy of deporting violent criminals but wanted to reduce immigration raids, which she said at the time caused “unnecessary fear and turmoil in communities,” Fox News Digital previously reported.
In 2018, Clinton called out the Trump administration for its deportation policies.
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“Separating children from their families has now become official policy of the US government, a nation of immigrants. This is an absolute disgrace. #FamiliesTogether,” he wrote to X.
Clinton argued in 2018 that immigrants, whether legal or illegal, were making the American economy exceptional by increasing the workforce. (Christian Torres/Anadolu via Getty Images)
At the Newmark Civic Life Series held in Manhattan last year, Clinton argued that immigrants, whether legal or illegal, make the American economy extraordinary by contributing to the workforce.
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“One of the reasons why our economy performed so much better than comparable advanced economies around the world was that we actually had a reinforcement, because we had a lot of immigrants, legal and undocumented, who had larger-than-usual families — by American standards,” he said.
