CNN Host Gets Fact Checked to Her Face On Her Own Show by Navy SEAL Senator Tim Sheehy [WATCH]

Sen. Tim Sheehy accused the Biden-Harris administration of deliberately encouraging mass migration into the United States and then erecting barriers to deportation, arguing that federal and local policies were designed to keep illegal immigrants in sanctuary cities despite broad public support for border enforcement.

Sheehy made the comments during an on-air exchange with CNN anchor Pamela Brown, where the two sparred over whether record border crossings under the Biden-Harris administration were the result of intentional policy choices or broader systemic failures.

“There’s a desire to keep these people here,” Sheehy said.

“They were brought in intentionally during the Biden administration. This was an intentional importation of millions of people to sanctuary cities, and now they want to make it impossible for us to deport them.”

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Sheehy said the policies conflict with the will of American voters, even amid recent national controversies tied to immigration enforcement.

“Despite the fact that that’s what the American people have not only voted for in the polls to this day, even in the wake of the Minneapolis mistakes, to this day, the American people still support securing the border and deporting illegal immigrants,” he said.

“So this effort basically stalls. That makes it impossible to do widespread deportations which the American people have said they want, and that’s why it’s going to be a non starter.”

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Brown acknowledged that the Biden years saw unprecedented levels of illegal border crossings but pushed back on claims of deliberate intent.

“And it is true that under the Biden administration, there were record crossings that went down before Biden left office,” Brown said.

“But in terms of being intentional, I know that that is, that is a theory among some on the right, but there’s, there’s not evidence to show that they intentionally wanted the border to be open to people just, you know, coming here illegally. I just want to follow up on your point.”

Sheehy disputed that characterization but initially noted the disagreement.

“I don’t think that, Pamela, I mean I understand that’s your position,” he said.

Brown pressed further.

“What is the evidence?” she asked.

Sheehy responded by pointing to specific federal actions and funding decisions that he said encouraged illegal immigration and settlement in sanctuary jurisdictions.

“The facts don’t really belie that because they provided apps to bring them in, they provided massive amounts of taxpayer funding to it to not just incentivize them to come, but then keep them in sanctuary cities,” Sheehy said.

“I mean, the policies from the federal government down to local government incentivized mass migration.”

Sheehy argued that the scope and coordination of those policies make it difficult to view the outcome as accidental.

“And I don’t know how you say that any other way than that was intentional,” he said.

“It was intentional acts from the federal government to state governments to city governments to encourage this mass migration.”

He contrasted those policies with actions taken under President Donald Trump, arguing the difference showed that border security was a matter of political choice.

“If it wasn’t intentional,” Sheehy said, “how come the Trump administration was able to close that border with a snap of a finger in a matter of days, which is exactly what they did. It was a choice not to secure that border.”

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