Sen Tillis: Is it immoral Obama deported 3 million people? A: May I respond? Sen Welch: no

Sen Thom Tillis: “You’re a part of the problem…you’re demonizing President Trump…you cause people to go into their corners and get nothing done.” Senior Fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick: “May I respond?” Sen Peter Welch: “Uh, no.”

Democrats are using their final days in the majority to probe President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportations plan. Republicans say it’s time to take a more aggressive approach. “American people elected a new President, in large part to secure the border and deport people who came illegally under their predecessor,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said he is “part of a group of people here who … believes there should be a path for Dreamers,” but that advocates such as Reichlin-Melnick were personally responsible for the failure of Congress to enact protections.

“You cause people to go into their corners and get nothing done,” Tillis said. “That is why Chair Durbin has not been able to fulfill the promise on Dreamers every single year he’s tried for the last 20 because people like you make it impossible to have a — let me finish, and then I’ll let you speak, as long as the chair wants to — have a rational discussion about it, because if we don’t secure the border, I can’t get a path to citizenship for the DACA population.”

Tillis and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas.) say the American people want to see the government do something about the issue.

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Sen Tillis: Is it immoral Obama deported 3 million people? A: May I respond? Sen Welch: no

Key Points

Sen Thom Tillis: “You’re a part of the problem

• you’re demonizing President Trump
• you cause people to go into their corners and get nothing done
• ” Senior Fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick: “May I respond

Transcript Highlights

The following is transcribed from the video audio:

• I want to paint a picture of the crisis at the border and what the incoming administration has to deal with
• Roughly 8 million people came into this country illegally from the outgoing administration’s border policies
• The American people elected a new president and large part to secure the border and deport people who came illegally under their predecessor
• So to my Democratic colleagues, how many illegal immigrants being deported by the new administration would you find objectionable
• Again, considering we’re talking about law-abiding people who’ve been here for decades, I think that is enough that would have severe negative ramifications for the United States
• Do you think it would be fair or moral to deport any illegal immigrants
• Yes, I’m not a supporter of open borders, as I said before
• Well, I’m kind of curious what your position was back during the Obama administration when that’s exactly what he did
• I’m reading exactly what President Barack Obama did when he came into office and deported nearly five million people in excess of three million people
• So at that time, were you involved politically or in this space at the time that Obama was here

Full transcript: 895 words transcribed via Whisper AI.