Trump Ally Donalds Claims Returning Wrongly Deported Man Would Lead To ‘Scourge of Illegal Immigration’
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) claimed returning a man deported to a megaprison in El Salvador would lead to a “scourge of illegal immigration” at the southern border.
Donalds joined Fox News’ Will Cain on Friday night to discuss the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man the administration admitted was deported to an El Salvadorn prison in error. The administration has maintained that Garcia is an Ms-13 gang member despite no prior gang convictions against court orders to facilitate his return. Garcia was in the country illegally and living in Maryland for more than a decade before being deported.
Cain, filling in for Jesse Watters, asked Donalds what would happen if critics like Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), who visited with Garcia in El Salvador, got their “way” and Garcia was returned to the United States.
Donalds argued it would be a win for cartels and there would be a surge of illegal immigration.
The lawmaker said:
I think what you would see is more mass illegal immigration into the united States because it would be a signal to the drug cartels, to the to the coyotes and to the criminals south of the border that America is back open for illegal immigration. If our president doesn’t have the ability to deport criminal illegal aliens, then you have no ability to secure the America, secure the nation, and secure our southern border. You simply don’t have it. It would reopen the scourge of illegal immigration that the American people have soundly rejected.
Donalds accused Democratic critics of siding with gangs and dismissed critics concerned that Garcia’s case and the administration’s refusal to return him could lead to citizens’ rights being violated.
“That’s that’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard in my life,” Donalds said, adding that such messages are why the Democratic Party is “in shambles.”
Watch above via Fox News.
