Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-OH) on Tuesday’s edition of “The Ingrahan Angle” called on people to be denaturalized and deported over alleged widespread fraud in the Minneapolis childcare system.

FMR. REP. JASON CHAFFETZ, FOX NEWS HOST: Well, it’s not just Minnesota. Similar allegations of fraud are popping up in other states across the country. In Maine, the state suspended more than a million dollars in taxpayer money to a nonprofit that serves immigrants over suspected fraud… Here with us is Missouri Senator Eric Schmidt. Senator, look, prior to your life there in the United States Senate, you’ve been an Attorney General. I think you can see, smell fraud, waste, and abuse. I got to tell you, I served in Congress for eight years. I think Congress is pretty inept at this point. They never stand up for themselves. I do not understand, Senator, why you can’t use the power of the purse. That’s the only power that the United States Congress really has. I never see him use it, ever, to just say, screw it. We’re not giving you all these billions of dollars. It never happens. SEN. ERIC SCHMITT (R-MO): Well, I agree, and I think, you know, in the intro here, there’s two issues. The first is, we’re seeing, I think just sadly, the tip of the iceberg of this fraud from these Somali strongholds in the United States. It’s in Minnesota, you’ve talked about Maine, you’ve talked about Ohio. This is a scam that reaches far and wide, and I’m kind of tired of the talk. This is a broader legal immigration problem. We talk a lot about illegal immigration, but this is a legal immigration problem. So, from my perspective, under 18 U.S.C. 1343, the wire fraud statute, there ought to be prosecutions immediately. Every visa that can be revoked should be revoked. Every deportation that should happen should happen right away, and in some cases where necessary, denaturalization should happen. A strong signal should be sent to immigrant communities that if you’re going to come here and fleece the American taxpayer, we’re actually going to prioritize taxpayers over this toxic empathy that’s dominated the Democrat party. Secondly, you talked about some of the COVID fraud abuse. The Biden administration, Jason, pushed so much money out the door for causes and issues that were never related to COVID. I think you’re going to see another wave of this fraud, and you have to have state AGs who are serious about it, and hopefully President Trump’s U.S. attorneys, when those state AGs don’t step up, do it as well. But I think Congress certainly plays a role, but we’re kind of, I’m sort of done with the talking. This is about prosecutions now. This is about putting people in jail. They’ve taken billions of dollars, billions of dollars.

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