'Fox News Sunday' on December 31, 2023

Interview

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Thank you.

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He needs to look at the pull factor, and the pull factor right now is that as long as people are coming to the border and they feel that they're hitting (ph) a speed bump and they're being released and waiting for five or six years for adjudication, then they're going to keep coming.

It's the pull factor. If we don't address that by addressing detention, giving them the quick hearing, and then deporting -- most of them are going to be deported because asylum cases, if you look at the last 25 years, 87 percent are going to be rejected. So why are we allowing 100 percent when we ought to be looking at a smaller point?

So, it's the pull factor. You've got to have detention and deportation.

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Well, first of all, let's keep in mind that there is a federal law that says that if you come into the United States, it's a misdemeanor. Then if you keep doing it, it becomes a felony. So, there's already something there.

My only concern is and I understand the state of Texas, there is a frustration and I join them in that frustration. My only thing is, the only ones sort of trained to do immigration law are Border Patrol. It's not the military. It's not the Texas DPS or the local officials. That's my concern is the training part of it. But I join them in the frustration.

But there is a federal law that says if you come here illegally, then it's either a misdemeanor or a felony, and I think it's about time that the federal government starts enforcing the books, including Title VIII.

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No, look, the last time we had amnesty was in 1986. You had a Democratic Congress and you had a Republican President Ronald Reagan. That was last time. I don't support that.

But I think what Tony and I were trying to do is trying to figure out how do we stop these large numbers of people coming in. Tony and I were actually down there with Senator Cornyn, Chris Murphy and other members, where we spent about five hours with the president of Mexico. We just got to make sure we understand each other.

We don't want Mexico to interfere with our foreign policy or with our laws, but we want them to do their job. The more we stop people on their 20-yard line, which is Mexico and Guatemala, then the better it is for us here. Then we got to enforce Title VIII, deportation and, of course, detention also.

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Well, you know, both Tony and I are appropriators and we certainly want to make sure that we fund the appropriations bill, especially homeland appropriations bills.

You know, we do have January 19th and then we have February 2nd, and then in between there, we got to see if we're going to work out a deal on the border and, of course, Ukraine and other areas, Israel. So, those are the things we need to look at. But as appropriators, we want to make sure we don't have a shutdown. We want to make sure that we fund the government appropriately.

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Thank you so much. Happy New Year.

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