Republican Sen.-elect Bernie Moreno of Ohio told Newsmax on Thursday that he supports President-elect Donald Trump’s plan for mass deportations of illegal migrants in the country because the policies under the Biden-Harris administration were “patently absurd.”

Moreno joined “Finnerty” to point out that legal immigration is a “common-sense issue” that shouldn’t be rooted in ideology. Moreno, the Colombian-born, first-time candidate, just unseated Ohio’s three-term Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown this week in large part because of nonsensical immigration policies.

“Look, my family came here legally. I came here legally as a kid. We want to have a pro-immigration policy but not a pro-invasion policy, because that’s just insane,” Moreno told show host Rob Finnerty. “And as a legal immigrant, watching this country reward people who skip the line, who break our laws to get here, they get rewarded, and the people are still waiting in line, is totally, patently absurd.

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