Republican strategist Scott Jennings stumped CNN Host Abby Phillip on Wednesday with a question about the legal status of the family of the alleged Boulder, Colorado, attacker.
Mohamed Sabry Soliman allegedly attacked an event supporting hostages taken during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by the radical Islamic terrorist group Hamas that killed over 1,200 people in Israel, wounding as many as 15 people and a dog. Jennings noted that Soliman and his family appeared to overstay a visa.
“Is this family in the country legally or not?” Jennings asked Phillip, who responded, “Actually, I‘m not sure.”
“I think they may not be,” Jennings said, with Phillip saying, “Yeah, I’m not sure. No.”
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United States District Judge Gordon Gallagher of the District of Colorado, a Biden appointee, blocked the Trump administration from deporting Soliman’s family, with an injunction issued Wednesday.
“Obviously, in the household, you have extreme radicalism, and that has now led to the literal burning of American citizens on the streets of this country in a clear act of domestic terrorism,” Jennings told Phillip. “And so, again, we have an individual district court judge stepping in here to try to prevent the commander-in-chief of the United States from protecting Americans from a clear invasion of radicalism. That’s number one.”
“Number two, regarding the travel ban, he has a great reason. These countries don’t vet people. They don’t share information. People who come from these countries, which all, by the way, the link is the governments are essentially failed states,” Jennings continued. “They’re not functioning. And so they overstay their visas. All of these countries present massive problems for our own government when trying to figure out who’s coming here, why and how long they’re going to stay, and what are they going to do when they get here.”
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Upon taking office on Jan. 20, President Donald Trump issued several executive orders to address illegal immigration, including designating Mexican drug cartels, the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) and the El Salvadoran prison gang MS-13 as foreign terrorist organizations. The Trump administration has also revoked some student visas and at lest one green card over involvement in pro-Hamas demonstrations.
“We have had an awakening in this country of the abuse of the visa system,” Jennings said. “If you’re on a visa, you don’t have a right to be here. You’re a guest in this country, and we’ve seen a number of our guests turn on actual Americans and it needs to stop.”
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