Speaking to Fox News on Jan. 5, Sen. Lindsey Graham, who chairs the Senate Budget Committee, weighed in on the debate going on inside the Trump camp as to whether to start their legislative agenda with budget cutting, or with deportations of migrants and building the wall.
“I’m very worried that if we don’t put border first and get it done, it’s going to be a nightmare for our national security,” Graham said. “We’ve got millions of illegal immigrants that President Trump has promised to deport, and he should. Why are we doing mass deportation? Because we had mass illegal immigration,” he added. He estimated that it will cost $100 billion to build the wall and hire more immigration enforcement personnel, and “there’s no way in hell Democrats are going to give us $100 billion for mass deportation,” Graham said.
