Sen. Schmitt: ‘We Need To Reform’ Broken Legal Immigration System That Welcomes Terrorists, Hurts Americans
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., is calling out America’s broken legal immigration system following two terrorist attacks by naturalized U.S. citizens from the Third World.
The moment came on Thursday when the Show Me State’s junior senator joined Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle to discuss the ongoing Democrat-led shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Schmitt blasted the Democrats’ open border policies and espoused support for the Trump administration’s closing of the U.S.-Mexico border and deportation of illegal aliens. He also notably took the time to address the need to reform the country’s legal immigration system.
“A lot of these people have come in legally. A lot of American workers have been displaced by foreign workers. A lot of American students have been displaced by these visa mills at universities and tax breaks that companies get after the fact,” Schmitt said. “So, we’ve got a lot of work to do, but we clearly have laws right now that need to be enforced.”
The comments came hours after two foreign-born U.S. citizens carried out separate terrorist attacks in Virginia and Michigan. --->READ MORE HERE
This Week’s Terror Attacks Prove Immigration Isn’t ‘Good’ Just Because It’s Legal:
Thursday’s attacks are just the latest reminder that good immigration policy isn’t simple a matter of legality.
Less than a month ago Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said his “approach to immigration is very simple.”
“Legal? Good. Illegal? Bad,” Cruz said.
But a series of recent terrorist attacks proves that legal immigration can be just as dangerous as illegal immigration.
On Thursday Mohamed Bailor Jalloh — a Sierra Leone national — opened fire at Virginia’s Old Dominion University, killing Brandon Shah. Jalloh came here legally. But his legality didn’t stop him from providing material support to ISIS — the Islamic terrorist organization — in 2016. It also didn’t stop him from murdering an American hero.
That same legality didn’t stop 41-year-old Ayman Mohamad Ghazali — a Lebanese national who came to this country in 2011 and was naturalized in 2016 — from crashing his car into a Michigan synagogue on Thursday while armed with a rifle. Nor did it stop Senegal national Ndiaga Diagne, who opened fire at an Austin, Texas, bar, earlier this month, killing three and wounding 13 more. Diagne came to the United States in 2000 and was later naturalized in 2013.
Meanwhile New Yorkers were spared on Saturday after two radical Islamists whose parents immigrated here from Afghanistan and Turkey allegedly tried to bomb anti-Islam protesters outside of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s official residence.
Legality also didn’t stop the Boulder, Colorado, terror attack, allegedly by an Egyptian national, or the fatal shooting of a National Guardsman in Washington, D.C., allegedly at the hands of an Afghan national.
In each of these cases, the suspects themselves were either legal immigrants (at some point) or the children of immigrants. But coming here legally did not prevent radicalization or violence.
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on Thursday that the United States needs to have a serious conversation about legal immigration.
“We need to reform our legal immigration system. A lot of these people have come in legally. A lot of American workers have been displaced by foreign workers,” Schmitt said. “A lot of American students have been displaced by these visa mills at universities and tax breaks that companies get after the fact.” --->READ MORE HERE
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