Overview
- Speaking on the Munich Security Conference panel 'The West–West Divide: What Remains of Common Values,' Hillary Clinton said recent mass migration has been 'disruptive and destabilizing' and should be addressed humanely with secure borders.
- She stressed that enforcement must avoid 'torturing and killing people,' said barriers can be appropriate in some locations, and reiterated support for targeting violent offenders rather than broad raids.
- Clinton asserted that more people were deported under Bill Clinton and Barack Obama than during Trump’s first term or the first year of his second, a comparison widely reported but affected by differing counting methods across administrations.
- In a heated exchange with Czech Deputy Prime Minister Petr Macinka, Clinton said she dislikes Trump because of 'what he's doing to the United States and the world' and accused him of 'betraying the West' and modeling himself after Vladimir Putin.
- News outlets framed the remarks as a notable shift from some of her past positions that emphasized immigration’s economic benefits and opposed large-scale border wall expansion.