Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., told Newsmax's "Saturday Report" that the Republican Party is for legal immigration, not illegal immigration.
"Some Democrats have seen the light," the congressman told host Rita Cosby. "You know, we've done some legislation now, including some bills I have and the Laken Riley Act and some other pieces of legislation that have sailed through the House, with some — not the majority — but with some Democratic support.
"And they're they're getting through the Senate as well. So it's a new world."
Van Drew then said the Republican Party is for legal immigration.
"Almost all of us were legal immigrants. And we're going to say that over and over again.
"The Democrats try to confuse it and say [that] we're against immigrants, we hate immigrants, we're going to take good people and rip them out of their homes. No, we're not," he said.
"We're going to do two things from jump start. One, button up the border. Make sure you cannot have a solvent nation — a strong country with a weak, bleeding border. We're going to get that done from jump start.
"The second thing that we're going to get done: The real bad folks — the people that are still floating around, and some of them got through that are on the terror watch list — those folks that are criminals, whether they were criminals here or whether they were criminals in their country of origin, they have to be sent back."
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