Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar once said in a 2006 debate that a border fence would help bring 'order at the border.'
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar is facing backlash over the resurfacing of video capturing comments she made more than a decade ago on the need for heightened border security–including the construction of a"fence" between the U.S. and Mexico.
While Klobuchar's views appear to have transformed over the nearly 15 years that have passed since she made the comments, the Minnesota senator has previously faced scrutiny over her apparent willingness to entertain President Donald Trump's own border barrier ambitions. While Klobuchar did express a willingness to negotiate with Trump, she had also been outspoken at the time in condemning some of the president's other immigration policies, including his"zero tolerance" family separation policy, which saw more than 2,500 children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Noting that Trump had signed an executive order stopping the separations that he had begun, Klobuchar said Congress needed to pass legislation preventing border separations"to make it lasting policy." Klobuchar would also put an immediate end to the Trump administration's travel ban, which is expected to be expanded later this month.
While much of Klobuchar's platform centers around undoing many of the"mean-spirited" immigration initiatives the Trump administration has overseen, when it comes to the border wall, the Democrat's stance is not entirely clear.
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