Reacting to Democrats using a government shutdown as a negotiation tool, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) told the “Washington Watch” program he believes Democrats are not supported by the voters.
“I think they're underestimating the resolve of President Trump and the Republicans in Congress, and, quite frankly, the American people,” Biggs told show host Tony Perkins.
Biggs, who represents the 5th District in Arizona, was introduced by Perkins as co-chair of the Border Security Caucus and a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Democrats might be clever to use the government shutdown to make demands, the Congressman acknowledged, but they are being “unreasonable” with demands such as no more masked agents.
“Is that unreasonable?” Perkins, himself a former officer, asked.
It is unreasonable, Biggs replied, because anti-ICE activists want to make it easier to identify and dox the ICE agents. That makes it easier, he warned, for the agents to be physically attacked.
For those reasons, Biggs said, “I think they’re grossly unreasonable.”
Another so-called reform Democrats are demanding is to make some locations off limits for ICE agents, such as schools, churches, and hospitals.
During the Biden administration, which welcomed record-breaking illegal immigration, illegal aliens learned to use those “sensitive” locations to avoid ICE agents. That liberal policy was reversed by President Trump, however, during the first days of his second term.
“They're actually asking for sanctuary places where, in some of these instances, you've actually seen a violent criminal run into a church,” Biggs complained.
Asked by the show host where the negotiations are right now, the Congressman said Democrats used a recent hearing on a balanced budget amendment to talk on and on about how much they despise ICE and want to punish it by yanking its funding.
“They want to eliminate ICE altogether is what they want,” Biggs warned. “They want an open border.”
