In an exclusive interview with The Daily Signal on Thursday, Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., called the White House’s threat to “reduce” deportations of illegal aliens if Republicans didn’t vote for the recent Senate border and foreign aid bill “ridiculous”:
I guess we shouldn’t be all that surprised that this White House would do something like this, considering they completely just opened the floodgates Day One.
One of President Joe Biden’s first actions in office on Jan. 20, 2021, was to suspend former President Donald Trump’s stricter border measures, like border wall construction and requiring alleged asylum-seekers to apply for asylum from outside the U.S. rather than entering the country illegally.
“We’re seeing the consequences of it now, you know, 9 million people here illegally,” Schmitt said. “This is willful. This is not an accident….
