Posted on 02/09/2026 9:14:33 AM PST by Kazan
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) said it was “not realistic” to remove over 25 million people in this country who are undocumented.’
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Lawler said, “Look, this is an issue that I’ve been focused on for years. You know, for 40 years, we have not solved our immigration crisis. The American people were rightly outraged by what happened under the Biden administration, where you had over 10.5 million migrants cross our border, most of them illegally. You know, porous Southern border needed to be shut down. President Trump did that. The fact is, we have had nine straight months of net-zero illegal border crossings. You’ve had 675,000 people deported, 1.9 million people. Self-deport. Many of those folks are criminal aliens or people who have been involved in the criminal justice system. The American people overwhelmingly support that. But what they do believe, if you’ve been in this country, right or wrong, for five, ten, 15, 20 years, your children and your grandchildren are American citizens. People don’t want to see families broken apart. And so there’s got to be a legal path forward, not a path to citizenship, but a legal path forward for people to come out of the shadows so that they can work legally, that they can pay their taxes, pay any back taxes owed, pay a fine, not collect government benefits, and not commit a crime.”
He added, “That is the basis of the Dignity Act, so that we can actually start to solve a crisis that has been, in effect, for 40 years. We have over 25 million people in this country who are undocumented. You’re not rounding them all up and kicking them out. It’s not realistic.”
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Lawler is an idiot, or on the take.
he lost my vote...
No.
They don't.
It’s not realistic to assume it’s only 25,000
Do you know how to remove 25 million illegals???
One at a time. And don’t let anymore in.
Squeeze them by shutting off welfare, SNAP, Section 8, free medical etc. They will leave.
Such an inspirational “can’t do” visionary. He’d be the first to wave a white flag in war.
Cut off all welfare to non citizens and go after employers that hire them and a lot of those people will leave on their own anyways
But anything less than total removal is a failure. We should send legal immigration for a few years too while we are at it
Mike Lawler = Fabian Republican
If you make it impossible for them to work...impossible for them to receive any government assistance of any kind...and impossible for them to send remittances out of the USA, they will leave. You don’t have to KICK them out !
The U.S. government even offers them money to leave voluntarily !
Sure it is possible. Make it unbearable for them to remain and they will self deport!
Yep, useless pos. GET THEM THE HELL OUT!
Mike really should pitch in.
Primary Lawler.
Confiscate all wealth earned in this country by illegal aliens. Assume all of their wealth has been earned here. Stop wire transfers abroad. Let them keep it if they self-deport.
And, we’ll never know unless we try...
Dear RINO:
Oh, yes… Yes, it is… And it’s going to be done one way or the other.
If they legalize 25 million illegals they will all vote for the free stuff. A Republican would never win again. The middle class would have no power. It would be the rich ruling class and the dependent class deciding elections. A commie’s dream. When I hear a Republican talk of political suicide then you have wonder.
Holman: Hold muh beer...
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