Senator Eric Schmitt: People Are Connecting Dots Of What the Democrats Mass Migration Has Wrought For The Country | Video | RealClearPolitics
SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT: Yeah, I think we’re playing offense now. We’ve got the high ground on this, and we can’t lose the moment.
This is sort of a cultural issue now. People are connecting the dots, Charlie. Sort of what happened in this post-Cold War mentality this globalist vision of what could be is that these NGOs were funded. They fuel censorship in Europe. They fuel mass migration into this country. And you had good jobs that were shipped overseas to cheap labor.
And so you have Americans who were left behind in all that, and then you have the importation then of mass migration of low-wage workers to take the jobs that were left. And people now see it. They reject it. They don t want that to be America moving forward, and that’s part of the reason why people support this.
They also feel like Americans have big hearts and are of goodwill, but they also believe that a country is defined by its borders. And I think what you saw in the last administration were a bunch of left-wing radicals that were writing white papers suddenly were in charge and had access in the Oval Office and they couldn’t believe their luck and the power that they had, and they literally just threw open the border.
So you’ve got 15 to 20 million people in short order coming to communities again, to your point taxpayer-funded resources, school districts, hospitals.
And so when we talk about the Big Beautiful Bill and Medicaid, you know, the Democrats want to act like all these and their media allies like all these people are going to lose coverage. Literally the only people who are going to lose Medicaid coverage are illegal immigrants and able-bodied adults with no kids who choose not to work. That s it. That s the truth.