Failed 2016 presidential candidate Evan McMullin is calling out Congress for not doing more to stop Donald Trump’s new zero-tolerance immigration policy that arrests all illegal border crossers in an effort to secure our borders and enforce our laws as a basic matter of national security and rule of law:
Here’s a simple test for whether a member of Congress deserves your vote this year: are they condemning and working to stop the abject abomination of Trump’s forced family separations and incarceration of children? If not, they have no business anywhere near the halls of power.
— Evan McMullin (@EvanMcMullin) June 20, 2018
And, of course, McMullin was a big fan of making sure “we secure our borders and enforce our laws as a basic matter of national security and rule of law” when he was running in 2016:
Our immigration system must secure our borders and enforce our laws as a basic matter of national security and rule of law. Once our borders are secure, we can begin a national debate on developing a system where law-abiding people can seek a path to legal residence and in some cases citizenship. Our immigration policies should give preference to people who bring unique skills, innovative ideas, technologies and companies to our country.
He even called Hillary Clinton out for being weak on border security during the campaign, whatever that means:
.@HillaryClinton is giving a speech about immigration reform right now in DC, but hasn't said one word about border security. Not one word.
— Evan McMullin (@EvanMcMullin) September 16, 2016
And now like Senators McCain and Flake, who also advocated for a zero-tolerance approach, McMullin is backpedaling now that the consequences of that approach are realized.
(This is also why a large number of GOP voters never trusted the 18 other GOP candidates on immigration because their past words mean nothing.)
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Related:
ALERT: Minor children who are U.S. citizens separated from asylum seeker and placed with relatives who abused them. Guess who was president when this happened… https://t.co/Tbq0U5ot8P
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 20, 2018
Flashback 2014: Senators McCain and Flake criticize AG Eric Holder for ending prosecution of 1st-time border crossers https://t.co/FzeAkAXHZQ
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 20, 2018
Steve Schmidt leaves the GOP over zero tolerance policy endorsed by John McCain in 2015 https://t.co/GiUkddMsFW
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 20, 2018
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