Real Time with Bill Maher<\/i> is not typically a show where one expects to hear honest facts on an issue like immigration. However, during an episode of the HBO program last Friday, Maher brought up Hillary Clinton\u2019s record while several of his pro-amnesty guests gushed over the presidential candidate\u2019s lenient immigration policies.<\/p>\n
After several minutes discussing the history of Republican opinions on immigration, the host chimed in, “Did you see the Democratic debate on Univision about a week ago?\u201d he asked. \u201cBecause there has been a real change with the Democrats, too. Mission creep, I would call it. I understand their position was comprehensive immigration reform,\u201d he said. \u201cNow, in front of Univision, it seems to have morphed into, ‘you get across that river, you’re here to stay.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n But amnesty advocate Sister Simone Campbell objected: “I don’t think that’s really what was said.\u201d Maher responded by quoting a past statement by Clinton on the matter, “Well, it certainly wasn’t what Hillary said two years ago, which was ‘we have to send a clear message. Just because your child gets across the border that doesn’t mean the child gets to stay,\u2019\u201d he quoted. Maher finished by pointing out, \u201cShe’s changed her tune a lot from that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n There\u2019s no doubt that Clinton has shifted her stance away from enforcing existing immigration laws toward what\u2019s essentially an open border policy. On January 6, 2016, she went so far as to say \u201cI\u2019ll defend President Obama\u2019s executive action [on immigration]\u2014and I\u2019ll go even further to keep families together.\u201d She continued by promising to \u201cend family detention, close private [illegal]immigrant detention centers and help more eligible people become naturalized.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n