on Thursday night challengedover deportation raids, arguing that the children who fled Central America in 2014 should be allowed to stay in the country.

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“If my memory is correct, when we saw children coming from these horrendous areas of Honduras and neighboring countries, people who are fleeing drug violence and cartel violence. ... I thought it was a good idea to allow these children to stay in this country. That was not as I understand, the Secretary’s position," Sanders said at the Democratic presidential debate in Wisconsin.

Clinton, a former secretary of State, fired back that America needed to "send a message" to Central American families to discourage them from sending their children on the "dangerous journey" to the United States.

"The fact is there was a great effort made by the Obama administration and others to really send a clear message because we knew that so many of these children were being abused, being treated terribly while they tried to get to our border," she continued.