Indiana GOP Senator-Elect Jim Banks is all-in with Trump’s plans for mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, economic consequences be damned. Banks made an appearance this Friday on CNN’s Inside Politics, and was asked by host Dana Bash how Trump’s policy would actually be executed, and whether he believes all undocumented immigrants should be “kicked out of the country.”
“It’s my hope that we deport every single one of them that we can,” Banks replied. “And it starts with deporting violent criminals who are in the United States, who came here illegally, who have committed violent crimes.”
Banks also insisted that Republicans were going to “increase the penalties on businesses who hire illegals,” and that many undocumented migrants would then “leave on their own.”
Republicans have never gone after the businesses that rely on this labor, just the workers, so I’ll believe that when I see it. After Banks told Bash they would have the votes to fund Trump’s deportation plans, Bash asked him about how their plans would affect those with no criminal record, or children and those in mixed status families.
