Eric Schmitt

Wednesday on FNC’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) praised the Trump administration’s effort to carry out mass visa revocations.

According to the Missouri Republican, the policy was part of President Donald Trump’s platform in his initial 2016 presidential bid.

“Senator, the fact that a quarter century after 9-11, we still don’t know to have those biometrics,” host Laura Ingraham said. “I don’t believe we have the biometric exit, entry, the fingerprints, do we? That was part of the 9-11 Commission’s recommendations as well for all visitors to the United States. But this one, the Trump administration doing something.”

Schmitt replied, “Yeah, thank God, Laura, we have a president, we have an administration that is saying enough is enough, right? America is a nation, it’s our nation, it’s our home. It’s not some global refugee camp. I can’t believe it’s taken this long, but we finally have a president who is cracking down on this, because we’ve not just had an illegal immigration problem, what we saw under the Biden years, we also have a legal immigration problem. The abuse that we see with H-1B or the OPT or a lot of the asylum claims come from these temporary visas. The president is now saying, you know, enough is enough of that, and we’re going to crack down on it.”