NEW<\/span>You can now listen to Fox News articles!\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n While in Germany for the Munich Security Conference, Hillary Clinton<\/a> participated in a panel titled, “The West-West Divide: What Remains of Common Values.”<\/p>\n During the panel, Clinton appeared to take a stronger approach to her previous stance on border security.<\/p>\n ICE RAMPS UP DEPORTATION PUSH BY BOOSTING CAPACITY TO 92,600 BEDS WITH $38.3B EXPANSION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n “There is a legitimate reason to have a debate about things like migration,” Clinton said.<\/p>\n Hillary Clinton calls for ‘secure borders that don’t torture and kill people’ during the Munich Security Conference panel.<\/span> (Munich Security Conference, David Peinado\/Bloomberg via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n “It went too far, it’s been disruptive and destabilizing, and it needs to be fixed in a humane way with secure borders<\/a> that don’t torture and kill people and how we’re going to have a strong family structure because it is at the base of civilization,” she added.<\/p>\n Clinton acknowledged that there are places where a physical barrier<\/a> is appropriate but opposed large-scale expansion of a border wall during her 2016 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n NEW DEM PROPOSAL WOULD RESTRICT ICE’S KEY TOOL TO DETAIN CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIENS<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n At the time, she supported then President Barack Obama’s executive actions that deferred immigration enforcement<\/a> against millions of children and parents in the country illegally and wanted to end the practice of family detention.<\/p>\n “It went too far, it’s been disruptive and destabilizing, and it needs to be fixed in a humane way with secure borders that don’t torture and kill people and how we’re going to have a strong family structure because it is at the base of civilization,” she added.<\/span> (Amy Sussman\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Clinton also planned on continuing Obama’s policy of deporting violent criminals<\/a>, but wanted to scale back immigration raids, which she said at the time produced “unnecessary fear and disruption in communities,” Fox News Digital<\/a> previously reported.<\/p>\n In 2018, Clinton called out the Trump administration for its deportation policies.<\/p>\n CONGRESS UNVEILS $1.2T SPENDING BILL AS PROGRESSIVE REVOLT BREWS OVER ICE FUNDING<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n “It is now the official policy of the US government \u2014 a nation of immigrants \u2014 to separate children from their families<\/a>. That is an absolute disgrace. #FamiliesBelongTogether,” she wrote on X.<\/p>\n Clinton argued in 2018 that immigrants, whether legal or illegal, have made the American economy exceptional by adding to the workforce.<\/span> (Christian Torres\/Anadolu via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n At the Newmark Civic Life Series in Manhattan\u00a0last year, Clinton argued that immigrants, whether legal or illegal, have made the American economy exceptional by adding to the workforce.<\/p>\n CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n![\"hilary](\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1200\/675\/clinton-secure-border-fox-news.jpg?ve=1&tl=1\")
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