{"id":1374743,"date":"2022-03-13T21:30:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T01:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1374743"},"modified":"2022-03-13T21:30:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T01:30:52","slug":"exclusive-trump-backed-sen-john-boozman-weve-got-to-hold-employers-accountable-for-hiring-illegal-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-trump-backed-sen-john-boozman-weve-got-to-hold-employers-accountable-for-hiring-illegal-aliens\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive \u2014 Trump-Backed Sen. John Boozman: \u2018We\u2019ve Got to Hold Employers Accountable\u2019 for Hiring Illegal Aliens"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-trump-backed-sen-john-boozman-weve-got-to-hold-employers-accountable-for-hiring-illegal-aliens%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1374743&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Sen. John Boozman (R-AR), who is endorsed by former President Donald Trump in his reelection bid this year, told Breitbart News on Saturday that he believes the United States needs to \u201cbeef up\u201d the E-Verify system and \u201cmake that mandatory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to do a couple things: We need to beef up the E-Verify system and make that mandatory,\u201d Boozman said. \u201cWe need to make it such that we do hold employers accountable \u2014 they don\u2019t need to be the immigration agents. But certainly, keep the Remain in Mexico policy. And so importantly, we need to announce to the world that we\u2019re back to keeping folks out that don\u2019t belong here, and securing the border, and making it such that it\u2019s going to be very difficult if you try.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Boozman\u2019s comments came during an in-depth interview on <em>Breitbart News Saturday<\/em> on SiriusXM 125 the Patriot Channel, during which he recounted his history of leading on the issue of immigration. Way back in April 2013, before many other senators had even taken a position on the then-forthcoming \u201cGang of Eight\u201d amnesty plan, Boozman publicly came out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2013\/04\/27\/boozman-rises-up-in-opposition-to-rubio-schumer-bill-because-it-contains-amnesty-provisions\/\">against<\/a> the proposal, and his office told Breitbart News he was opposed to it. His public opposition \u2014 he was joined in those early days by just a handful of others \u2014 ran counter to the conventional wisdom and career political class in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19808218\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1358087851.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immigrant men from many countries are taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents at the U.S.-Mexico border on December 07, 2021, in Yuma, Arizona. (Photo by John Moore\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Republican National Committee (RNC) had just published an \u201cautopsy\u201d of the 2012 election, surmising that failed presidential candidate Mitt Romney lost the 2012 election because Republicans needed to support open borders immigration policies. Romney is now a U.S. Senator from Utah but, then, was the former governor of Massachusetts and 2012 GOP presidential nominee who had just lost to now-former President Barack Obama, a Democrat, the year before. Republicans were desperate to figure out a path forward, and many embraced the push for amnesty, which culminated in the Gang of Eight amnesty bill \u2014 which later passed the U.S. Senate with 14 GOP votes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>But, despite eventually getting it through the then-Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate, the bill never got consideration in the GOP-controlled U.S. House. Therefore, the legislation died and amnesty was not enacted into federal law in 2013 or 2014 \u2014 and that is, in large part, thanks to the few courageous voices like Boozman who fought it in the lead-up to Trump\u2019s rise into the White House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy thing is amnesty rewards behavior that you don\u2019t want,\u201d Boozman told Breitbart News when asked why he came out in opposition to the plan then. \u201cIt was kind of like, \u2018let\u2019s do amnesty and then we\u2019ll secure the border at a later date or promise to do this.\u2019 That\u2019s essentially what happened with President Reagan. He got snookered into the same thing where you have the amnesty provision going forward, but the border never gets secured. If you don\u2019t secure the border, then you\u2019re right back in the same situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boozman\u2019s opposition to the Gang of Eight amnesty plan \u2014 along with work by then-Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Rand Paul (R-KY) to fight it as well as pushes from many House members like then-Rep. Tom Cotton (R-AR), now a U.S. Senator from Arkansas \u2014 helped sink the plan. That led to Trump\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign, when the now-former president shattered the political consultant vision of open borders by openly campaigning for a wall along the U.S. border and strict immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s electoral success in 2016, and later his policy successes aimed at curbing illegal immigration \u2014 he nearly finished building the wall in his first term and significantly slowed the flow of illegal immigration through things like the Remain in Mexico policy and the Migrant Protection Protocols more broadly \u2014 proved politically popular as well. Republicans party-wide have generally, with rare exception, embraced that vision that Trump championed and was first laid out by those few voices fighting the Gang of Eight amnesty plan back in the day. Of those 14 Republicans who voted for the Gang of Eight amnesty, nine are no longer in the U.S. Senate just nine years later \u2014 and only five remain. Of those remaining five, it is safe to say at least two, probably three, of them would never vote for that bill again \u2014 and maybe the other two would reconsider as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, for many, many reasons, I was adamantly opposed [to the Gang of Eight] and you\u2019re right \u2014 it has moved in the right direction,\u201d Boozman said. \u201cPresident Trump not only campaigned on it, but unlike so many others, he actually did something about it. When he got to office, he looked at the areas that needed to be beefed up on the border through additional fencing and electronic sensors and did a good job of that. And he instituted the Remain in Mexico policy so that, if you were seeking asylum, you knew you weren\u2019t going to be in the United States waiting for the backlog of hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people and, again, allowing you to be here without any problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>To this day, Boozman continues to champion the voices of Americans forgotten by the political elites on immigration policy. He recently<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/28\/watch-angel-family-of-18-year-old-killed-by-illegal-alien-throws-support-behind-john-boozman-in-arkansas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> released<\/a> a campaign ad in which a family member of someone killed years ago by an illegal alien \u2014 an Angel Family \u2014 endorsed his reelection. Asked about why he focuses on this side of the issue, Boozman told Breitbart News that it humanizes victims of crimes that should not happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s one thing if you say it, it\u2019s another thing if I say it in the situations where we\u2019re at, but when you\u2019ve got a lady who\u2019s so compelling and just tells her story and the tragedy that fell upon her family,\u201d Boozman said. \u201cThis simply didn\u2019t need to happen. That\u2019s something that does grip the hearts of the American public and really does humanize \u2014 we can look at statistics, we can talk about two million people, we can talk about crimes committed. Certainly, everybody that comes over here doesn\u2019t commit crimes, but you get in a situation now where the Biden administration is so crazy in the sense that they won\u2019t deport anybody. Her message is compelling; I think it puts a real face on what we\u2019re facing. Because of that, it\u2019s something that the average person can relate to, and it\u2019s something I think is very effective in telling the message.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong>WATCH SEN.\u00a0<\/strong><b>JOHN BOOZMAN\u2019S (R-AR) CAMPAIGN AD:<\/b><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Since President Joe Biden, another Democrat, came to the White House, he has undone much of Trump\u2019s popular and effective immigration crackdown measures \u2014 which Boozman said has effectively rolled out the red carpet to the rest of the world\u2019s migrants to come here.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe other thing that was so important was he [Trump] essentially said to the world, \u2018look, the border is closed and we\u2019re going to do everything we can to protect our border,\u2019 unlike President Biden when he got in, when he got rid of the Remain in Mexico policy and essentially said, \u2018come on down, and if you can get here, you\u2019re welcome to stay,\u2019\u201d Boozman said. \u201cSo, it\u2019s a tremendous difference in approach, but as a result right now, there were two million people last year and we\u2019re on track to be in that direction this year. If you\u2019re apprehending two million people, there\u2019s no telling how many people in addition to that get through because there\u2019s a lot of people getting through because the Border Patrol agents are so busy taking care of unaccompanied minors and all those kinds of things. So, the other thing too \u2014 I\u2019ve been to the border so many times, these are good people down there. They\u2019re working so hard and they\u2019re discouraged. When they had the listening sessions with the brass down from Homeland Security, they booed them and they got in shouting matches. They\u2019re as discouraged as the rest of us. We could talk about all the crazy things they\u2019re doing now too. $450,000 per illegal immigrant? The idea they can use their arrest warrants as documents to allow them to fly? You can\u2019t make this stuff up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In GOP primaries from coast to coast this year, voters continually say they are looking for fighters \u2014 and, more importantly, candidates of their word. It\u2019s moments like the Gang of Eight plan push that truly test whether a senator is with the voters who sent them to office or whether they will cave to special interests lobbying for problem-laden legislative proposals like that. Asked about this pressure, Boozman said the calculation is very simple for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was under a lot of pressure, just like you come under pressure, but my guiding thing \u2014 and I campaigned on this, and I actually do what President Trump did, which is when I campaigned on something, I do follow through,\u201d Boozman said. \u201cThis is a national security issue. It was then. It is now. But my things were: You need to secure the border \u2014 No amnesty. English as the official language. These are simple things, simple truths, that we simply have to do and we didn\u2019t do, so we\u2019re in the situation we are now. The other thing we have to remember is the border is secure \u2014 on the Mexican side \u2014 because the cartels know everybody that crosses, and if you don\u2019t pay them a portion, you don\u2019t get across. That\u2019s my thing is this is a very, very important issue. It was important to the people of Arkansas back then and it is now. It truly is a national security issue. We were able to ultimately prevail, but as you say, it was a very difficult time for a while. You talk about these things, and as you said, the facts weren\u2019t really out. You get the facts out and you explain to people the ramifications of this and that\u2019s how you prevent bad things from happening. I think you get judged on two things \u2014 your work, and there\u2019s some things we need to get done, and then, very importantly, we need to keep bad things from happening. That\u2019s particularly important with this administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump clearly recognized in Boozman someone who was ideologically aligned and willing to fight for these priorities as Boozman was one of if not the first major endorsement he made in the 2022 cycle. On March 8, 2021, more than 15 months before Boozman\u2019s primary, Trump endorsed the Arkansas senator, saying in a statement that Boozman is \u201ca great fighter for the people of Arkansas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is tough on Crime, strong on the Border, a great supporter of our Military and our Vets, and fights for our farmers every day,\u201d Trump said of Boozman. \u201cHe supports our Second Amendment and has my Complete and Total Endorsement!\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6071310\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Trump-bowed-head-National-Prayer-Breakfast-Washington-DC-February-2-2017-getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6071310\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Trump-bowed-head-National-Prayer-Breakfast-Washington-DC-February-2-2017-getty.jpg\" alt=\"Win McNamee\/Getty Images\" width=\"492\" height=\"369\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. President Donald Trump bows his head in prayer while attending the National Prayer Breakfast February 2, 2017, in Washington, DC. Also pictured is Sen. John Boozman (R-AR). (Photo by Win McNamee\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>When Biden came into the White House, he almost immediately undid everything Trump had in place and, as a result, more than two million migrants have streamed into the United States since he took the Oath of Office. Boozman thinks the solution is very simple: Reimplement Trump\u2019s policies and crack down on employers hiring illegal aliens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiden did all of the things you said and then the other thing was he essentially said to the world, \u2018come on over because we\u2019re not doing these things and it\u2019s very easy to get into the United States,\u2019\u201d Boozman said. \u201cWe have to reinstate those policies that President Trump used very, very effectively. The Remain in Mexico policy, that was a new thing. He pressured the Mexican government into cooperating. We\u2019re a great country; we\u2019ve got levers we can pull to make people cooperate. He did that and it made a huge difference. So we\u2019ve got to do those things, and again at some point, we\u2019ve got to hold employers accountable. If the work is not here, if they don\u2019t have jobs, then they\u2019re not going to come. The other side of this, for those that are trying to take care of their families, that are impoverished in the rest of the world, you can certainly understand why they want to be here, but we are a nation of laws. You have to do this right. The people that resent this the most are the people that worked through the system, did everything right, and it might have taken five or ten years to work through the process. But again, I think that\u2019s how you do it: Hold employers accountable and then no amnesty, and kind of go down that path.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not only is the Trump vision for immigration good policy, Boozman says, but it is also good politics for Republicans. Republicans have made historic gains in recent elections, not just with white working-class voters but also with key minority groups like Hispanic and black voters \u2014 and all signs point to continued GOP growth in those communities as a result of this America First vision. In fact, a <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> survey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/11\/poll-republicans-take-9-point-lead-hispanics-more-than-double-black-support-27-percent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published<\/a> last week shows the GOP leading Democrats by nine percent with Hispanic voters and more than doubling support in the black community since late last year as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI agree totally \u2014 if you look at President Trump\u2019s policies, you had the best economy in 50 years,\u201d Boozman said. \u201cLowering regulations, lowering taxes, real growth in wages amongst the groups that you\u2019re talking about, and real growth in employment. That\u2019s what everyone wants. If you don\u2019t have a job, if you can\u2019t make a living wage, everything else is pretty unimportant. He did a tremendous job, and we\u2019re seeing the contrast in that now with the mess we\u2019re in regarding this horrific inflation and a poor economy. What they want to do now is just add gasoline to the flames with this massive spending bill \u2014 which I think this is what killed it with the help of the American people, but on the other hand, it just still won\u2019t go away. You\u2019re right, these policies are simple truths. They work and really do produce good results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>LISTEN TO SEN.\u00a0<\/strong><b>JOHN BOOZMAN (R-AR) ON\u00a0<em>BREITBART NEWS SATURDAY<\/em>:<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. 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