GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham: We talk about mass deportation, but 'we don't have the resources'
GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham: We talk about mass deportation but 'we don't have the resources'
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Sunday urged his congressional Republican colleagues to prioritize sending more money to the Trump administration to help the president with his mass deportation plan.
“Here’s the question for the Republican Party. We talk about doing this, but we don’t have the resources. We haven’t given the Trump team the resources,” Graham said in an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”
Mass deportation was one of President Donald Trump’s biggest refrains on the campaign trail. In his stump speech, he repeatedly promised to “launch the largest deportation operation in the history of our country,” often saying he would deport all of the 11 million undocumented immigrants estimated to be living in the U.S.
Immediately after the election, Trump dismissed concerns about how much this effort would cost, telling NBC News in a November post-election interview, “It’s not a question of a price tag.”
He added then, “It’s not — really, we have no choice. When people have killed and murdered, when drug lords have destroyed countries, and now they’re going to go back to those countries because they’re not staying here, there is no price tag.”
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