Hillary Clinton calls for 'secure borders that don't torture and kill people' during the Munich Security Conference panel. (Munich Security Conference, David Peinado/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
"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.
Clinton acknowledged that there are places where a physical barrier is appropriate but opposed large-scale expansion of a border wall during her 2016 presidential campaign.
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At the time, she supported then President Barack Obama's executive actions that deferred immigration enforcement against millions of children and parents in the country illegally and wanted to end the practice of family detention.
Clinton argued in 2018 that immigrants, whether legal or illegal, have made the American economy exceptional by adding to the workforce. (Christian Torres/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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.
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"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.
Ashley J. DiMella is a lifestyle reporter with Fox News Digital.
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