While campaigning in New Hampshire recently, Hillary Clinton sounded a Donald Trumpian note on immigration.
“Look, I voted numerous times, when I was a senator, to spend money to build a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in,” she said, “and I do think you have to control your borders.”
Perhaps realizing the error of her ways, on Tuesday, the former secretary of state expressed regret for her remarks. But not for the reason you’d think.
Rather than apologize for the policy she espoused (liberals, after all, have for years decried the notion of building a “barrier” along the Mexican border) Clinton instead bemoaned her “poor choice of words”–in this case, “illegal immigrants.”
“That was a poor choice of words,” she said, “As I’ve said throughout this campaign, the people at the heart of this issue are children, parents, families, DREAMers. They have names, and hopes and dreams that deserve to be respected. I’ve talked about undocumented immigrants hundreds of times and fought for years for comprehensive immigration reform.”
It will be interesting to see if people were, in fact, more incensed by Clinton’s language than by the Trump-like policy of wall-building that she expressed her support for. If so, perhaps the Donald can expect support from the left if he starts talking about deporting the “undocumented” rather than “illegal immigrants.”
