Michael Steele Warns Trump’s Deportation Plan Will Open a ‘Pandora’s Box of Hell’

Former Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele said President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to deport undocumented immigrants en masse will lead to abject chaos.

As he did in 2016, Trump made immigration a focal point of his campaign by claiming the country had been overrun by immigrants.

“We’re a dumping ground,” he said in October. “We’re like a garbage can for the world. That’s what’s happened.”

On Tuesday’s Deadline: White House on MSNBC, Steele ripped Trump’s immigration policy.

“We don’t have to go down this road,” he said. “Our fate in this country is not that bad that we would turn it over to a two-bit, wanna-be dictator who’s gonna enrich himself, engorge himself off of federal dollars and contracts, and relationships for his hotels and his properties, and continue to cozy up to our adversaries to mimic their illiberal bad behavior because he wants to fit in.”

Steele called the president-elect “insecure” and accused him of emulating Russian President Vladimir Putin and Hungarian President Viktor Orban.

“That’s not what America’s about,” he continued. “So, we have to decide as a country if this is really how it ends. Yes, I said ‘ends’ because it doesn’t get better when you open up this Pandora’s box of hell and expect people to sort of realize an American dream that is slowly being ripped away from them because Donald Trump has decided, well, ‘We don’t like your last name and you shouldn’t be here.'”

Watch above via MSNBC.