Sen. Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) suggested during an interview over the weekend that Republicans needed to have “realistic” expectations about how many deportations will happen during the next four years under President-elect Donald Trump.
Thune made the remarks during a Sunday interview on NBC News’ “Meet The Press” when asked about Trump’s top agenda item after taking office — the removal of millions of illegal aliens who have invaded the country under President Joe Biden.
“Certainly there are categories of people who’ve committed crimes,” he said when talking about who should be targeted first for deportation. “There are over a million people that the current administration had targeted for deportation. And so I think that we have to take seriously the fact that there are a lot of people in this country today, over 10 million, who’ve come in just in the…
