In 2016 while on the election trail in support of his wife, Bill Clinton came out against President Trump's proposed border wall. He is on record saying; "You know and you can talk all you want to about how wonderful it will be when we put a wall up across the Rio Grande. Let me tell you something folks you can put that wall up, its physically possible. Then why don't we put up a wall along the Canadian border there are a lot of foreigners over there too. Then we can put up a sea wall in the Atlantic and sea wall in the Pacific. Then you can send the United States navy to the Gulf of Mexico and keep people out of there".
Bill Clinton's mockery of Trump's border wall and overall approach to immigration goes against everything he stood for in his powerful 1995 State of The Union address.
"We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it."
This speech, in which he claimed he would deport twice as many illegal aliens as ever before and crack down on illegal hiring, earned President Clinton a standing ovation back in 1995.
Much like her husband Hillary Clinton has doubled back on her stance on immigration reform as well. In 2016 while on the campaign trail she was very outspoken against Trump's proposed border wall. She is quoted as saying "We will rise to the challenge, just as we always have. We will not build a wall, instead we will build an economy where everyone that wants a good job can get one."
But, in 2006 Hillary Clinton signed the Secure Fence Act. During that time she said "Very briefly on immigration, I hope we get back to comprehensive immigration reform. We have had an unfortunate political season where the issue has been used as a political football. There isn't any sensible approach expect to do what we need to do simultaneously.. you know secure our borders with technology, personnel, physical barriers if necessary"
That's right, in 2006 Hillary Clinton's stance on immigration was much different. She supported immigration reform in the form of physical barriers and tougher employer sanctions.
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