During a conversation with CNN's Dana Bash, Republican senator-elect Jim Banks said that it will be easy for the GOP to round up and deport illegal immigrants.
One of the key promises Donald Trump made during his campaign for president was that he would deport millions of illegal immigrants. And now that he's been elected the GOP has decided that they have a mandate to do this, despite what it could do to the national economy.
Bash asked the lawmaker, "First of all, just to better understand what the actual policy is and how it will be executed will be, do you see all undocumented immigrants –– should they all be kicked out of the country?"
Banks answered:
"Conservative estimate says there are at least 15 million illegals who have come into the country on Joe Biden's watch. It's my hope that we deport every single one of them that we can and it starts with violent criminals who are in the United States who came here illegally who have committed violent crimes, and I think, once you do that, President Trump is committed to making that his first and top priority when it comes to mass deportation."
The senator-elect would later continue:
"I don't think it's that complicated. I spoke with a local sheriff in Indiana earlier today, local law enforcement is ready to go and do what it takes to help with a mass deportation effort but if you take away the incentives and put pressure on businesses who hire illegals in this country, most of those who are here illegally are going to go back on their own. And that's what Donald Trump and Republicans in the House and Senate are focused on."