Chris Sununu: ‘Alligator Alcatraz Has 5,000 Beds, Two Days Worth of Deportations’

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SUNUNU: "Well, a couple things. I mean, first, you know, one of the main reasons Senator Rand Paul is against this bill, for example, is, to your point, it adds 500 billion, 500 billion in new spending from defense to border and all this. This Alcatraz alligator thing, 5000 beds, that‘s like two days' worth of deportations in terms of their goal, so it‘s actually a very small piece of the puzzle. It‘s very symbolic, I think, and really defines, I think, where the administration is trying to take border control and border security. I don‘t mind it. I want to see, I think a lot of people would agree, an immigration reform bill. I think the Republicans have an awesome opportunity to do a good, smart, conservative immigration reform bill. I tell them all the time, if you don‘t do it, eventually the Democrats will be in charge and they‘ll do it, and they won‘t do it the way you want it. So if you wrap this up in a better package with better messaging, the American people, the American public will really understand it. And on those issues of supporting defense support — closing the border and all that sort of thing, Americans want that. That‘s essentially why they voted Trump in. It‘s this Medicaid stuff that they were told they weren‘t going to be bargained for. And the Republicans just haven‘t planned in terms of how to sell that, that piece of it."