Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) nuked NBC host Kristen Welker over President-elect Donald Trump’s planned mass deportations.
In a resurfaced viral clip from May 2024, the outgoing senator, soon to serve as Trump’s Secretary of State, appeared on NBC’s Meet The Press to discuss Trump’s plan to deport millions of illegal aliens.
Welker asked Rubio if he supports Trump’s plan to deport “11 million undocumented immigrants,” which Rubio pointed out was an outdated figure from over a decade ago.
“11 million? That’s an outdate. That was the number 10 years ago. We’re talking upwards of 20, 25, maybe 30 million. There’s been almost 10 million people in this country in the last three years. The number varies big time. I mean, it’s another 9 to 10 million people just in the last three years,” Rubio noted.
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The answer to your question is yes,” he continued. “We cannot absorb 25, 30 million people who entered this country illegally. They are here illegally. What country on earth would tolerate that? We don’t even know who some of these, most of these people are. They talk about vetting. Vetting them with what?They’re coming from nations that don’t even have document systems in many cases. Yes, we are going to have to do something.”
“Unfortunately, we’re going to have to do something dramatic to remove people from this country that are here illegally, especially people we know nothing about. But 10 million, 11 million, that was the number 15 years ago. Today, it’s upwards of probably 25 to 30 million, maybe more,” he added.
Welker than tried to undermine Rubio by pointing to past remarks he made opposing Trump’s mass deportation plan and asked, “Why have you changed your mind now?”
Rubio replied, “Because the issue has completely changed. When I said that back in 2013 when I was involved in immigration reform, we had 11, 12 million people that had been here for longer than a decade.”
“Now we’ve had almost that number in the last three years alone from all over the world, including people that I believe are terrorists, people that I believe are going to conduct terrorist attacks in this country if given the opportunity, certainly people that were criminals in their home country.”
“This is a completely different- this is not immigration. You asked me about immigration. This is mass migration. Mass migration. This is an invasion of the country,” Rubio added.
Watch the full interview:
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