GOP Lawmaker Backs Trump’s Mass Deportations Even If He Has ‘To Pay More For Guacamole’
Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) backed President-elect Donald Trump’s planned mass deportations and tariffs by claiming he was willing “to pay more for Guacamole.”
Recently, Trump has proposed implementing a 25% tariff on all goods coming across the border from Mexico and Canada. Moreover, the president-elect has vowed to carry out mass deportations of millions of undocumented migrants in the U.S. from Mexico.
During a Wednesday interview on CNN, Boris Sanchez pressed Van Orden on how the Trump administration plans to carry out mass deportations without disrupting the food supply.
ORDEN: Well, here’s what’s really been inflationary the last four years of the radical out-of-control Biden spending with this inflation reduction act. That’s what has caused inflation. And if it means that I have to pay more for guacamole. But fentanyl poison does not come across the Canadian and Mexican border. And our mothers and sisters and brothers and daughters are poisoned to death by this chemical that’s coming across the borders. I’m willing to pay more for guacamole, as is the rest of the United States of America. And we’ve got to understand that this is not a political statement. It’s not a Republican or a Democrat issue or independent or libertarian. We’re sick and tired of our children and our neighbors dying from fentanyl poisoning, which not a single person, not a single person listening to the show right now that is farther than one degree separated from someone that has died from fentanyl poisoning. And that’s exactly what President Trump is getting to do with these tariffs.
SANCHEZ: Congressman, I wholeheartedly understand your point about fentanyl poisoning. I myself have friends who served in the US armed services who are no longer with us because of it. It is an epidemic. But it doesn’t completely answer the question about keeping the food supply chain intact. If you’re going to deport roughly half of that workforce, how is that going to work?
ORDEN: Let’s remember, for the first time in the longest time, we are a net importer of foods. So under Biden’s war on agriculture, which is what it’s banned from that war on energy because the input costs are what’s incredibly important that goes from fuel to seed to nutrients. We have become a net importer of food. So when we get rid of the disastrous Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Green New Deal war on agriculture, we’re going to be able to produce enough food here in the United States for ourselves. When people say food security is national security, it’s not some glib little statement that you throw out. It really means something. If you’re incapable as a nation to provide of providing food for our country, you are by definition beholden on other nations. And I’m not concerned that we’re going to not be able to produce enough food here in the United States. I just simply am not. We have an E-Verify system that is marginally at best functioning, but will make sure that we have the folks that are here legally and lawfully here to make sure that we can produce our food.
Watch the clip above via CNN.
