'If President Trump Wins...': Lindsey Graham Predicts How Trump Will Respond To Migrant Crisis

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During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) spoke about how he believed Donald Trump would handle the migrant crisis if he were to win the 2024 election.

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00:00 Keep pushing here.

00:02 Are you concerned that

00:04 if we pass DACA tomorrow, it would incentivize more illegal immigration?

00:10 I'm not. It did not happen in 2012. That's fair. Ms. Vaughn, are you?

00:14 Yes, I am because we do know from experience that when Congress is talking about

00:21 enacting an amnesty, when there's this general discussion... It goes around the world. It goes around the world.

00:28 I mean, look how many people know our policy. I got you. I got you. How many

00:32 children four years old

00:36 have come to the country in the last three years, Mr. Wong,

00:42 illegally brought by their parents? There are approximately

00:46 600,000 undocumented young people under the age of 18 and a... In the last three years?

00:53 No, under 18 and a small percentage of those... No, I'm asking you how many people

00:59 under 18 have been brought to the United States by their parents in the last three years?

01:03 Based on ACS projections, we can guess

01:06 approximately 60,000.

01:09 60,000? Yes. Of the nine or ten million?

01:12 Minors. So based on ACS data, so this is excluding those in counts.

01:18 So how many unaccompanied minors have we had in this country in the last three years? I do not know.

01:23 Was it 400,000, John? What was it?

01:27 Unaccompanied minors.

01:29 400,000.

01:31 Ms. Nobles, the man accused of killing your daughter, was he an unaccompanied minor?

01:35 Yes, he was. Would we all agree America would have been better off if he had not been allowed to come here?

01:42 I would assume everybody says yes.

01:47 They indicted this man today. He's innocent until proven guilty. This is Mr. Berra.

01:54 He was paroled into the country along with

01:57 millions of other people, but he is paroled due to

02:01 detention capacity at the Central Processing Center in El Paso. That's the man facing murder charges of

02:09 Ms. Lakin Riley. He was just waived into the country. You went through a lot, Ms. Rodriguez.

02:15 You have a lot to be proud of. We check who you are and you know, you made a lot out of your life here.

02:24 Nobody even gave this guy the time of day.

02:26 So, you know, Gabby, I

02:29 admire you very much, but I am completely convinced if we gave

02:34 legalization to anybody until we stop this stuff, we're just going to be overrun. And you know, here's the dilemma. You have very

02:42 bright, hard-working people that I want to help that have been here for years, but now you've got

02:53 tens of thousands of new three, four, nine-year-olds. Are they going to get DACA, too? Mr. Wong,

03:00 anybody that's been here

03:02 for the last three years as a four-year-old or seven now, should they be allowed to be considered

03:09 DACA of the future? DACA had residency requirements to

03:13 explicitly address that potential pull. So, would you recommend we tell them they can't stay? So, that's what we have done

03:21 historically. So, it's okay to tell these four nine-year-olds you can't stay.

03:26 Well, so I didn't make DACA, but DACA did not allow individuals who recently arrived to enroll in the program.

03:32 So, I guess my point is where does it stop?

03:34 There'll be a group, very

03:37 sharp nine-year-old child that's been here three years and

03:42 three will turn into five and five will turn into ten, and we'll have this all over again.

03:47 It's not that I don't want to help. I just want to do anything that's gonna throw gasoline on a fire.

03:52 We've had almost over two million people paroled. I just want to let people know that if President Trump wins,

04:00 I predict, I'm not gonna speak for him, but unless you really truly have a unique benefit to the country or a

04:08 unusual

04:11 humanitarian situation, you're gonna be kicked out.

04:15 There are millions of people here who have just been waived into the country. They don't, Ms. Fon, has the parole statute been abused?

04:22 Yes, it has been. Yeah, so you're talking about trying to help people that are deserving and

04:29 you just can't convince me that it's not gonna lead to a bigger run on the border and

04:34 the biggest fear I have right now is that if we don't get control over the parole system,

04:41 the unaccompanied minor system, the stories of Lincoln Raleigh and Miss Nobles are just gonna grow and grow and grow and

04:48 Mr. Chairman, I

04:51 have been sitting,

04:54 Gutierrez, we sit at a table and

04:57 I've been pushing back and I'll end. I never dreamed

05:02 it would get this bad and to expect me or anybody else to engage in legalization in the middle of a complete chaos

05:10 is just a

05:12 bridge too far.

05:14 Thank You, Senator. Senator Rono.

05:16 Thank You, Mr. Chairman.

'If President Trump Wins...': Lindsey Graham Predicts How Trump Will Respond To Migrant Crisis

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