President Donald Trump likely will have a hard time following through with a plan to have Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents deport millions of immigrants beginning next week as there are not enough resources for that to happen, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito said Wednesday.
"I think he's going to have a hard time enforcing that with the way we're seeing a lack of resources, a lack of people to be able to enforce the numbers of children that we see coming across," the West Virginia Republican told CNN's "New Day," adding that she wants to keep the focus on border enforcement instead.
"I think we need to still look in this country and those folks, particularly the ones that are breaking the law, again need to be and already face deportation notices," said Capito.
Capito said the Senate Appropriations Committee will vote Wednesday on an emergency appropriations bill that will address where "the greater emphasis" needs to be, with the Border Patrol at the border.
The bill is expected to come before a full vote in the Senate next week.
Lawmakers Tuesday compromised for $4.6 billion in the measure, and the money will be used in part to alleviate the numbers of unaccompanied children are being held for too long, said Capito.
"We should have the resources through Health and Human Services to be able to place those children," said Capito. "This will also provide the resources for us to do temporary facilities that I think match what our humanitarian philosophy is better to take care of people while they're being processed."
The bottom line to control the growing number of immigrants, however, is that U.S. asylum laws be changed, as "they are too loose," said the senator.
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