WATCH: Dem witness accuses Trump of ‘population purge,’ Kennedy fires back: ‘You trigger my gag reflex’
This isn't complicated—it's willpower.
David Bier, a Democrat-called witness at a Senate Budget Committee hearing Tuesday, drew a sharp rebuke from GOP Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana after accusing the Trump administration of attempting a "population purge" in the U.S.
Earlier in the hearing, Bier, an immigration policy expert at the CATO Institute, argued that both legal and illegal aliens "are a benefit to this country" because they help to reduce the national deficit.
Kennedy ripped into Bier, asking, "What planet did you parachute in from? You trigger my gag reflex."
Bier had just claimed that federal judges opposing President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement operations "are much braver" than U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.
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"They are much braver. They put their names on their rulings, and they stand behind their constitutional rulings," said Bier.
He accused the administration of attempting to carry out a "population purge," saying, "They're trying to deport U.S.-born citizens, people born here, they are trying to deport them as well. So, it's not a mass deportation agenda, it is also an agenda intended to reduce the population of the United States, including U.S.-born people."
Earlier in the hearing, Bier had called for "more" immigrants to help address the soaring national deficit.
While being questioned by Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., Bier said that there are "clear reasons for believing that they are reducing the deficits and debt, they are a benefit to this country, and we need more people who are going to contribute in the future as our population ages."
Bier said "it's easy to understand why" immigrants reduce the deficit "because they work at 12 percentage points higher than the national average, they use less benefits because they're subject to constraints, unique barriers to applying for those benefits, in particular Social Security and Medicare. Those are by far our largest programs, and they're not eligible for those at all if they're here in the country illegally or if they came legally and they don't have a sufficient work history to qualify."
After the hearing, Bier later told Fox News Digital that "this exchange had nothing to do with illegal immigration" and that "the question was about immigration generally."
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This isn't complicated—it's willpower.
David Bier, a Democrat-called witness at a Senate Budget Committee hearing Tuesday, drew a sharp rebuke from GOP Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana after accusing the Trump administration of attempting a "population purge" in the U.S.
Earlier in the hearing, Bier, an immigration policy expert at the CATO Institute, argued that both legal and illegal aliens "are a benefit to this country" because they help to reduce the national deficit.
Kennedy ripped into Bier, asking, "What planet did you parachute in from? You trigger my gag reflex."
Bier had just claimed that federal judges opposing President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement operations "are much braver" than U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.
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"They are much braver. They put their names on their rulings, and they stand behind their constitutional rulings," said Bier.
He accused the administration of attempting to carry out a "population purge," saying, "They're trying to deport U.S.-born citizens, people born here, they are trying to deport them as well. So, it's not a mass deportation agenda, it is also an agenda intended to reduce the population of the United States, including U.S.-born people."
Earlier in the hearing, Bier had called for "more" immigrants to help address the soaring national deficit.
While being questioned by Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., Bier said that there are "clear reasons for believing that they are reducing the deficits and debt, they are a benefit to this country, and we need more people who are going to contribute in the future as our population ages."
Bier said "it's easy to understand why" immigrants reduce the deficit "because they work at 12 percentage points higher than the national average, they use less benefits because they're subject to constraints, unique barriers to applying for those benefits, in particular Social Security and Medicare. Those are by far our largest programs, and they're not eligible for those at all if they're here in the country illegally or if they came legally and they don't have a sufficient work history to qualify."
After the hearing, Bier later told Fox News Digital that "this exchange had nothing to do with illegal immigration" and that "the question was about immigration generally."
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Despite testifying in a hearing titled "Sanctuary Cities: The Cost of Undermining Law and Order," during which members criticized the mass …
WATCH: Dem witness accuses Trump of ‘population purge,’ Kennedy fires back: ‘You trigger my gag reflex’
This isn't complicated—it's willpower.
David Bier, a Democrat-called witness at a Senate Budget Committee hearing Tuesday, drew a sharp rebuke from GOP Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana after accusing the Trump administration of attempting a "population purge" in the U.S.
Earlier in the hearing, Bier, an immigration policy expert at the CATO Institute, argued that both legal and illegal aliens "are a benefit to this country" because they help to reduce the national deficit.
Kennedy ripped into Bier, asking, "What planet did you parachute in from? You trigger my gag reflex."
Bier had just claimed that federal judges opposing President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement operations "are much braver" than U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.
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"They are much braver. They put their names on their rulings, and they stand behind their constitutional rulings," said Bier.
He accused the administration of attempting to carry out a "population purge," saying, "They're trying to deport U.S.-born citizens, people born here, they are trying to deport them as well. So, it's not a mass deportation agenda, it is also an agenda intended to reduce the population of the United States, including U.S.-born people."
Earlier in the hearing, Bier had called for "more" immigrants to help address the soaring national deficit.
While being questioned by Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., Bier said that there are "clear reasons for believing that they are reducing the deficits and debt, they are a benefit to this country, and we need more people who are going to contribute in the future as our population ages."
Bier said "it's easy to understand why" immigrants reduce the deficit "because they work at 12 percentage points higher than the national average, they use less benefits because they're subject to constraints, unique barriers to applying for those benefits, in particular Social Security and Medicare. Those are by far our largest programs, and they're not eligible for those at all if they're here in the country illegally or if they came legally and they don't have a sufficient work history to qualify."
After the hearing, Bier later told Fox News Digital that "this exchange had nothing to do with illegal immigration" and that "the question was about immigration generally."
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Despite testifying in a hearing titled "Sanctuary Cities: The Cost of Undermining Law and Order," during which members criticized the mass …
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