'I don't believe that!' MAGA lawmaker swats down poll showing outrage against ICE
Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) was confronted on NewsNation with footage of a Minneapolis woman being accosted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents, and with new polling that indicates the American people are recoiling at the violence Trump's federal agents are inflicting in American cities — and her response was categorical denial.
"Supposedly this woman, the way she explains it, was saying that she was trying to get to a doctor's appointment and these immigration agents, federal agents busted into her car, ended up busting some of the windows, dragged her out of the car," said the anchor. "You know, I guess the basic question here is ... not whether the goal is to remove the people who are in the country illegally, or especially those who may have committed a crime, but what are we doing in terms of how we're going about this, and is it fair to say at this point that some, if not may, of these operations are simply just going too far?"
"I don't think that they're going too far," said Miller, a staunch MAGA supporter who has come under fire for praising Hitler. "These are people that have broken our federal immigration laws, they've bellied up to taxpayer benefits, they've, a lot of them have been involved in fraud in Minnesota and in Illinois, and now they are resisting arrest, and if you break the laws and resist arrest, it's not going to be pretty."
"Well, even if you tell an agent, I'm trying to get to the doctor, and this is what happens?" the host pushed back.
"She's here illegally, she's probably getting free health care, taxpayers are paying for — if she truly isn't an illegal, I just now am seeing this, I've been busy all day so I have not seen this, I don't know the background, the truth will come out like it always does," said Miller, backtracking. "But if she is here illegally, she's on her way to the doctor and she is resisting arrest, who cares? She's breaking the law and she is resisting arrest. The American people are fed up with this. The American people voted overwhelmingly for President Trump, he told everybody what he was going to do."
"But this part, we had a poll earlier in the week, only 39 percent support the president's approach, the way he's carrying it out," said hte host.
"Well, I don't believe that," said Miller. "I don't know how they're doing their polling. The people in my district want people that are breaking our federal immigration laws to be deported, and they want noncitizens off taxpayer-funded benefits."