Hillary Clinton just got caught lying about her husband's immigration record on a world stage.
She came home and posted the same claim on X this week.
Bill Clinton's own Justice Department published a report 25 years ago that she never should have forgotten about.
Bill Clinton's INS Was Detaining Twice as Many Migrant Children Per Day as Trump
At the Munich Security Conference in February, Hillary told the audience that more people were deported under Bill Clinton and Barack Obama "without putting children into detention camps" than under Trump.
This week she posted on X that Trump has detained 6,200 migrant children with an average of 226 held per day.
Hillary built the lie on a foundation that doesn't exist.
The Clinton administration's INS detained 4,136 unaccompanied illegal juveniles in fiscal year 2000 alone.
That same DOJ Office of the Inspector General report, published in 2001, documented the daily average: 400 to 500 children in custody on any given day under Bill Clinton's watch.
Hillary's husband was detaining roughly twice as many children per day as Trump – and she went to Munich and told a room full of foreign dignitaries he did it without detention camps.
That statistic is in a government report she could have looked up in five minutes.
The 1996 Clinton Immigration Laws That Created Mandatory Detention of Illegal Aliens
In April 1996, Bill Clinton signed the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act – a law that dramatically expanded the grounds for detaining and deporting immigrants and authorized the first fast-track deportation procedures in American history.
Five months later, he signed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, which expanded the categories of illegal aliens subject to mandatory detention and made it harder to avoid deportation even for legal permanent residents.
The Clinton White House bragged about it.
In 1995, Clinton's INS Commissioner Doris Meissner held a press briefing to announce record deportation numbers, declaring the administration "means business when it comes to enforcing immigration laws."
The detention system Hillary now calls cruel was Bill Clinton's signature domestic achievement on immigration – and it produced the 400-to-500-children-per-day figure she conveniently left out of her Munich speech.
ICE Has Located 145000 Unaccompanied Children Biden Left With Unvetted Sponsors
A DHS spokesperson told Fox News that ICE does not target children or separate families – parents are asked whether they want to be removed with their children, and any child not removed with a parent is placed with a designated safe person.
Biden created a disaster for the children Hillary claims to care about.
His open border policies let more than 450,000 unaccompanied children enter the country illegally and be placed with sponsors – many of whom turned out to be smugglers and sex traffickers.
ICE has since located more than 145,000 of those children through door knocks and in-person visits across the country.
Hillary's post complained that Trump is detaining 226 children per day.
She said nothing about the 450,000 children Biden left unaccounted for with unvetted strangers – including the Guatemalan sponsor in Maryland arrested for raping the child in his care, the Massachusetts sponsor arrested for child enticement and possession of child sexual abuse material, and the El Salvadoran sponsor in Michigan convicted of drug trafficking.
Trump is detaining children at a lower daily rate than her husband did.
His team is also finding the children Biden's policies left with predators – something Hillary has never once mentioned.
Bill Clinton's DOJ documented the numbers in 2001, and Trump's DHS is finding the victims in 2026.
Hillary has a posting schedule and an audience that doesn't check either.
Sources:
- Ashley J. DiMella, "Hillary Clinton rips Trump on migrant child detentions, but Bill Clinton's own record cuts deep," Fox News, April 16, 2026.
- Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General, "Unaccompanied Juveniles in INS Custody," U.S. Department of Justice, September 2001.
- Department of Homeland Security spokesperson statement to Fox News Digital, April 16, 2026.
- ICE and State, Local Law Enforcement 287(g) Partners Launch Initiative to Protect Vulnerable Children, DHS.gov, November 14, 2025.
- Ashley J. DiMella, "Hillary Clinton says migration 'went too far' and 'needs to be fixed in a humane way,'" Fox News, February 15, 2026.