Intransigent immigration positions "were not empathetic and were not nice"

P The presidential candidate, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand reacted on Sunday to the similarities between her old comments on immigration and President Trump's comments.

The New York Democrat said that her uncompromising positions more than ten years ago, while she was a legislator in the House and represented a conservative congressional district in the north of the state of New York, "were not empathetic nor nice," including voting for the increase. funding for the control of immigration and customs in the United States and opposed opposition to the amnesty for illegal immigrants. Gillibrand attributed her change of opinion to a greater number of constitutive views when she became a US Senator in 2009.

"What the President Does Trump destroys the moral fabric of what this country represents, "Gillibrand said during an interview on CNN's" State of the Union. " "I think what he has done is so horrible and so petty that I do not look like him and I will never be like him because my values ​​have not changed: I will fight for the children of others as strong as mine. "

The senator, who announced last week that she had formed a presidential exploratory committee, presented a similar defense on "This Week", the ABC News newspaper.

"I would say to the voters," Look at my heart, see who I am. "I believe I have the courage, the compassion and the unwavering determination to do what is right, even when it is difficult, especially when it is difficult," Gillibrand said Sunday.

Gillibrand's comments come as the Trump administration and congressional Democrats have stalled funds for border security measures, such as the Wall Project. from the southern border. The stalled negotiations resulted in the partial closure of the government that began on December 22.