Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., said Thursday that the fight over immigration reform and the U.S.-Mexico border has stalled because neither party “wants to give the other side a victory.”
Kinzinger told Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom” on Thursday that “Part of the problem is no one wants to give the other side a victory, especially the left right now. We got to secure the border.”
He added that “Democrats want to go back to this old… policy that was started under President Obama calling them ‘cages’ when in reality if you look at what the alternative is, if you have an unaccompanied child that comes up and they don’t have a relative in the United States, they’re either detained, held in a facility or else you have to release them to the United States to nobody.”
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen testified before the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday, where Democrats grilled her about the Trump Administration’s immigration policies and President Donald Trump’s recent National Emergency declaration.
“When the Democrats try to say it’s Border Patrol or the administration that’s terrorizing these people, that have PTS[sic] symptoms at the end of this,” Kinzinger said Thursday. “It’s actually the human traffickers that convince them to do it. That do these terrible things to people and it’s also the parents that send their kids up here without any adult supervision, the unaccompanied minors. Tell me how that's good.”
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