‘It’s ridiculous’: Top U.S. senator sounds alarm on real ‘civilizational issue for us’

By Joe Kovacs

In the wake of the last week’s murder of Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom allegedly by an Afghan national let into America by Joe Biden, a top Republican senator is sounding the alarm on both legal and illegal immigration policies, calling it a “civilizational issue for us here in the West.”

U.S. Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., a key member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, appeared on “Sunday Morning Futures” with guest anchor Jackie DeAngelis on the Fox News Channel.

“The American people have had enough of it,” Schmitt said. “It’s one of the big reasons they sent President Trump back to the Oval Office. He campaigned on this.

“So this mass migration we’ve seen needs to be met with mass deportations. Twenty-million people came here illegally. There’s flaws in our legal immigration system. I think this is a real kind of civilizational issue for us here in the West.”

“They’re dealing with it in Europe. It’s had tragic consequences there and I think if we get ahead of this in this country, we’ll be OK. But the Left is hell-bent, I think, on this open-borders policy. And then if you come here illegally, you’re never ever supposed to leave. It’s ridiculous.”