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In the wake of the last week’s murder of Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom allegedly by an Afghan national let into America by Joe Biden, a top Republican senator is sounding the alarm on both legal and illegal immigration policies, calling it a “civilizational issue for us here in the West.”
U.S. Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., a key member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, appeared on “Sunday Morning Futures” with guest anchor Jackie DeAngelis on the Fox News Channel.
“The American people have had enough of it,” Schmitt said. “It’s one of the big reasons they sent President Trump back to the Oval Office. He campaigned on this.
“So this mass migration we’ve seen needs to be met with mass deportations. Twenty-million people came here illegally. There’s flaws in our legal immigration system. I think this is a real kind of civilizational issue for us here in the West.”
“They’re dealing with it in Europe. It’s had tragic consequences there and I think if we get ahead of this in this country, we’ll be OK. But the Left is hell-bent, I think, on this open-borders policy. And then if you come here illegally, you’re never ever supposed to leave. It’s ridiculous.”
Sen. Eric Schmitt: “This mass migration we’ve seen needs to be met with mass deportations. 20 million people came here illegally. There’s flaws in our legal immigration system. I think this is a real civilizational issue for us here in the West.” pic.twitter.com/CnK2i1AdSb
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Schmitt says all the political left wants to do is to “create controversy, create chaos, make it look like the ICE agents are the bad guys in all this.”
He explained federal agents are merely “picking up bad folks, and sending them back where they belong, not in the United States of America.”
Schmitt again stressed, “It’s not just an illegal immigration problem. We have real abuses with our legal immigration system that should be addressed.
“Take the H-1B [visa] program, for example. You have white-collar jobs now that the Americans have the humiliation of training their foreign replacements in order to receive their severance pay. They don’t have any additional skills, they’re just being paid less.
Today, exclusively on @SundayFutures with @MariaBartiromo, Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt @SenEricSchmitt spoke with guest host @JackieDeAngelis about President Trump tightening immigration following the deadly attack on the National Guard in Washington, D.C.@FoxNews pic.twitter.com/PjfkNsN0Zh
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“The OPT (Optional Practical Training) program which has become a visa mill by universities ’cause they get paid full freight. That’s taking away American jobs too where you have some of the highest unemployment rates for engineers and physics majors who we have plenty of in this country, but they’re being squeezed out through some of these programs. So there’s a lot to do on this front.”
President Trump noted Sunday on Truth Social: “Crooked Joe Biden, Mayorkas, and so-called “Border Czar” Kamala Harris really screwed our Country by letting anyone and everyone come in totally unchecked and unvetted!”
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