Mayorkas on Immigration Critics: ‘People Have Died Because of that Rhetoric’

EXCERPT:

BARRON-LOPEZ: "As the son of Jewish and Cuban immigrants, and of a mother who survived the Holocaust, what do you think, what goes through your mind when you hear Donald Trump, the former president, say that immigrants are poisoning the blood of the country?"

MAYORKAS: "So, I’m going to detach it from the individual, as I must, given legal constraints, I abide scrupulously to the Hatch Act requirements. That rhetoric that I have heard espoused by people is odious. I don't know what to say. People have died because of that rhetoric. My mother’s family, her father’s eight brothers, parents, sister, died because of that rhetoric."