It’s only natural that the United States is going through the largest repatriation in history, Rep. Tom McClintock (R–Elk Grove) told The Sun.
Sitting down for a podcast interview on Sunrise FM, McClintock – who is the Chairman of the Immigration Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee – spoke about President Donald Trump’s efforts on immigration, among other topics.
What he’s saying: McClintock said immigration laws are useless unless they are enforced by the federal government. And without immigration laws, McClintock argues that the U.S. does not have its own agency as a country.
- “Without immigration laws, we have no border, and without a border, we have no country,” McClintock said. “Our immigration laws were not written to keep people out. They were written to assure that as people come to our country, they come with good intentions, that they come wanting to become Americans to raise their children as Americans and to adopt an appreciation of American legal traditions, Constitutional principles and traditions.”
- He told The Sun that illegal immigration undermines the entire process of legal immigration that makes the U.S. possible in the first place.
- “If we are going to ignore our immigration laws and tolerate illegal immigration, well then what’s the point of going through all the fuss and bother of immigrating legally? It destroys the whole structure that a nation of immigrants like ours depends upon for the assimilation from people around the world,” McClintock said. “So that’s why these immigration laws are so important. Of course they went completely unenforced for four years. Under the Biden administration we had the biggest illegal mass migration in human history – more than nine million illegal migrants admitted to our country without any serious vetting and in direct contravention of our laws.”
- The flood of illegal migrants throughout under the Biden administration overwhelmed the nation’s schools with non-English speaking students, flooded emergency rooms and overwhelmed food shelters and homeless shelters, among other issues, McClintock said.
- “Worst of all, it meant a flood of fentanyl coming into this country and some of the most violent and brutal criminal international cartels from around the world that have now taken up residence in our major cities, particularly in the sanctuary cities where local governments actually protect these criminals,” McClintock said. “So we all have seen the damage that was done by this.”
