‘Citizens Are Different’: Scott Jennings Shuts Down Dem Rep’s Fearmongering About Deportations

Republican strategist Scott Jennings told a CNN panel that Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat of New York was “conflating” U.S. citizens and illegal immigrants Monday night during a debate over the Trump administration’s deportation efforts.

President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act Saturday to speed up deportations of foreign gangbangers from the United States. Espaillat claimed that U.S. 🛂Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) could accidentally deport an American citizen after Jennings and “CNN NewsNight” host Abby Phillip clashed over the flights removing Tren de Aragua (TdA) members, a notorious Venezuelan gang, from the U.S.

“I don‘t think anybody disagrees about their ability to deport people who are — who are murderers and rapists or whatever. But don‘t they have to actually prove that those people are who they say they are and that they‘ve carried out those acts of those criminal acts?” Phillip asked, with Jennings responding, “Well, we know they‘re violent people, because —”

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“How do we know?” Phillip said, interrupting Jennings, who said, “Because — well, because their records have already been pulled. I mean, these people were violent where they came from. And now they‘re here illegally. So you want to keep them here?”

Upon taking office on Jan. 20, Trump issued several executive orders to address illegal Immigration