Sen Jim Inhofe (R-OK) said that the influx of unaccompanied illegal immigrant minors is disrupting the military’s operations. In an interview on MSNBC’s The Daily Rundown on Thursday, he reported that the surge of illegal immigrants and attempts to house them at military bases is “very disruptive on the mission that we have trying to carry out in our military.”
Inhofe also stated that the unaccompanied minors are “here in this country at the invitation of the president.” And that “all of [the children I spoke to] were programmed to say that they had relatives here, they were invited to come up here, they’re going to stay here. At the same time, they say, HHS says, ‘we’re not going to send them back.’ So long as they have that assurance, more are coming in.”
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