Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, said Monday that Democratic opposition to President Trump’s immigration offer shows they don’t really care about solving America’s border problems.
“The president showed them for their insincerity,” he said on Fox News. “He dangles out there a big offer, which would probably result in millions getting legalization, and what do the Democrats do? They say ‘Oh, that’s not good enough.'”
“Well, it’s several times better than what you had before and it’s still not good enough,” he said. “The president, brilliant. He showed them for their insincerity.”
Trump proposed legalizing up to 1.8 million Dreamers, who are younger immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children. But Trump also said the U.S. needs to fund a border all, and end chain migration and the diversity visa lottery.
But Gohmert admitted he’s skeptical that the border security side of the deal would ever get sone, since Congress has passed laws in that area before, and then watched the actual effort fizzle out.
Gohmert also said he’s concerned that talk of an immigration deal seems to be leading to increased migration to the U.S. through Mexico.
“If we get the border secured, then we will be able to work out things for those who are here, get rid of the gang-bangers and all that,” he said. “But until the border’s secured, the Border Patrol are telling me, the surge is back, and now families are coming in droves bigger than ever.”
