Hillary Clinton in 2003: "I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants." [View all]

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“We’ve got to do several things and I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants,” Hillary Clinton said on the John Gambling Radio Show in 2003.

She went on to further say, "but certainly we've got to do more at our borders. And people have to stop employing illegal immigrants. Come up to Westchester, go to Suffolk and Nassau counties, stand in the street corners in Brooklyn or the Bronx – you’re going to see loads of people waiting to get picked up to go do yard work and construction work and domestic work."

Here's audio of the interview where that derogatory anti-immigration quote comes from:

Moreover, she sounded like Trump when she sternly advocating to build a wall between the US and Mexico. Here's the source for that: http://nydailynews.com/archives/opinions/border-battler-hillary-build-u-s-mexico-fence-article-1.594388

Ten years ago, a number of political experts said Clinton’s immigration stance was to the right of President George W. Bush and was even referred to as “Pat Buchanan-esque.” Conservatives thought they had an ally in Hillary Clinton on immigration. Here's the source for that: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/13/nyregion/the-evolution-of-hillary-clinton.html

As a U.S. Senator, Hillary Clinton supported the tracking of immigrants, tighter border controls, and identification upon entry and exit of the country.

When she was running in 2007 and 2008, Hillary Clinton took a firm stance against providing driver licenses for undocumented immigrants. Moreover, in her last presidential run, for a long time, she favored a path to legal status for undocumented immigration over a pathway to citizenship.

Hillary Clinton has stated anti-immigration positions as recently as last year as well. On June 17, 2014 Clinton expressed her desire to deport child immigrants from Central America: “We have to send a clear message: Just because your child gets across the border doesn’t mean your child gets to stay,” Clinton said.

Here's more information about that, from a Vox article entitled "Hillary Clinton wants child migrants sent back. Here's what that would look like."