Republican Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri appeared on the Sean Hannity show tonight and made a great point about what the Democrats are trying to do with ICE. It’s Defund the Police all over again.
He is not even talking about the funding, really. He is talking about the fact that Democrats want ICE agents harassed to the point where no one wants to be an ICE agent anymore, just like what happened with the police a few years back.
To his credit, Schmitt flatly says we are not doing this again.
Transcript via Overton News:
SCHMITT: “The only reason Democrats want to unmask ICE agents is they want facial recognition software to identify these ICE agents and harass their families, so nobody want to be an ICE agent again.”
“We lived through this with the defund the police movement, where you saw a drop in people who wanted to be police officers.”
“We’re not doing that again.”
“We’re also not going to make it harder for them to do their job, with all the hurdles the Democrats want them to jump through.”
“If you understand this fact, you realize that the central operating idea between the Democrat Party now is that they believe in open borders and they don’t believe that anybody that came here illegally should have to go home.”
“And we cannot give in on that fact.”
See the video below:
Senator Eric Schmitt rips the Democrat playbook WIDE OPEN on why they want to unmask ICE agents.
Then he doubled down: Republicans aren’t passing any DHS deal that weakens ICE.
SCHMITT: “The only reason Democrats want to unmask ICE agents is they want facial recognition… pic.twitter.com/bmyCtjFtwP
— Overton (@overton_news) March 25, 2026
Schmitt is spot on about the Democrats. They want ICE agents unmasked so that their shock street troops of activists can go after them.
He is also correct when he says that Democrats are for illegal immigration and open borders now. They prove repeatedly that they learned absolutely nothing from the 2024 election. If anything, they have doubled down on their radical agenda.
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