Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha said President Donald Trump was right that the country needed a new president to fix the border, not legislation.
“All we needed was just rhetoric from a president saying ‘don’t come here [and] if you come here we will stop you and if you get in we will deport you,’” Concha said on Fox Business’s Evening Edit. “And boy, those words carried a lot of weight as the president said.”
The Department of Homeland Security reported in November that U.S. Border Patrol released zero illegal immigrants into the United States for six months straight.
Concha praised the Trump administration’s immigration successes, calling the report “remarkable.”
“That is a remarkable feat when you consider that 12, 15 million people came in under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in one of the worst national security disasters we have ever seen in the United States,” Concha said.
Anchor of Evening Edit, Elizabeth MacDonald, also asked Concha about a recent bill that was passed in the House, where only seven Democrats joined Republicans.
The Kayla Hamilton Act is aimed at “closing dangerous gaps” in the government’s handling of unaccompanied illegal immigrant children.
Concha said that he thought a bill like this would receive “100% passing.”
“This is like voting against a cure for cancer, and this was a cancer in terms of poor children living with criminals and everything that happened at the border during Biden, as far as sex trafficking, human trafficking, children coming across the border with these drug cartels just using them,” Concha said.
DOJ STRUGGLES TO BUILD CASES AGAINST ANTI-ICE PROTESTERS IN LIBERAL CITIES
Concha said that legacy media have not given Trump “credit” for saving children from these circumstances.
“It’s just so sad thinking of some children as young as three, two years old being put in these positions, and now thanks to Tom Holman, thanks to President Trump, many children have been saved as a result of this,” Concha added.