Sean Hannity advocates states take deportations into their own hands

Hannity: “If the law of the land states that you can repatriate people back to their own country, what prevents Texas from obeying the written law of the land?”

Sean Hannity advocates states take deportations into their own hands

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From the March 11, 2021, edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Sean Hannity Show

 

GREG ABBOTT (GOVERNOR OF TEXAS): We got the states trying to do the federal government's job on the state budget but also with the limitation that the federal government will not let us enforce immigration law. If Texas --

SEAN: What is stopping you -- if the law allows, this is a -- let me ask this question, because I -- and I -- by the way, I really sympathize with you because this is -- this is now going to be an unmitigated disaster for border states. And I don't know what Senator Mark Kelly is going to do out in Arizona, he's been in hiding. I've been trying to get a hold of him.

But, if the law of the land states that you can repatriate people back to their own country, what prevents Texas from obeying the written law of the land? What are they going to do, they're going to come and take you out in handcuffs and put the governor of Texas in jail? If you're enforcing the law of the land?