Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton raised eyebrows as she appeared to admit that “secure borders” are necessary for migration, which has gone “too far.”
Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, the 78-year-old former Secretary of State appeared to be expressing another about-face on border security after she had repeatedly blasted President Donald Trump for his immigration policies.
“I think we need to call it for what it is,” Clinton said during a panel titled, “The West-West Divide: What Remains of Common Values.”
“There is a legitimate reason to have a debate about things like migration,” she declared.
Hillary Clinton admits illegal immigration went too far:
“It went too far, it’s been disruptive and destabilizing.”
REMINDER: Biden let millions of unvetted illegal criminals pour into the country for four years. pic.twitter.com/JeqUxJsU7B
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 14, 2026
“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,” Clinton contended.
The former first lady blasted current deportation efforts as “bullying” and “very shameful.”
“This debate that’s going on is driven by an effort to control people. To control who we are, how we look, who we love, and I think we need to call it what it is,” she told the audience.
Notably, Clinton’s immigration remarks seemed to be a departure from her previous stances on the issue and appeared to be a criticism of the Biden administration’s disastrous handling of the border. She told the foreign audience that migration has been a “huge flash point” but went on to claim that “more people were deported under my husband and Barack Obama without killing American citizens and without putting children into detention camps than were in the first Trump term or this first year of Trump’s second term.”
“So, I think it’s important to look at the facts because very often the ideological impulse to try to protect the status quo or return making America great again in some nostalgic past that existed for white men and capitalist enterprise was not exactly open and welcoming to people who look like me and a lot of other people who are part of our national fabric,” she contimued her virtue-signaling.
Social media users reacted to Clinton’s migration admission.
I don’t trust her. First time I have ever agreed with her, but I don’t trust it for a second.
— Amanda🇺🇸Americana (@Amanda7255thAve) February 15, 2026
Interesting, she knows the tide has turned. She’s saving her own skin.
— Paul Rhodes (@PaulRho38597645) February 15, 2026
She’s decided to speak out now after the border has been secured? Where was she during the Biden administration?
— Michelle Pemberton (@shellpem) February 15, 2026
This can only be admitted at least 5,000 miles from home
— WoodenDoor (@Zebranski) February 15, 2026
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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