Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) on Wednesday skewered a left-wing attorney during testimony before the Judiciary Committee hearing after he admitted his beliefs that taxpayers should pay to house illegals in jail instead of deporting them, local police should not cooperate with federal immigration agents, and American taxpayers should provide healthcare benefits to illegals.
The heated exchange occurred during the Committee’s hearing on the 1982 Supreme Court decision in Plyler v. Doe, which required states to provide illegal aliens a free K-12 education. Gill sparred with liberal witness Thomas A. Saenz, President & General Counsel, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund.
Gill kicked off his questioning with the simple question of “if somebody crosses the border illegally, what should happen to them?”
Saenz gave the long, drawn-out response of “Federal law indicates that there are steps that can be taken to remove them. Now that can happen at the border, or it can happen when they are integrated into society. There are protections once you are integrated in society, especially depending on how long.”