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A top Republican senator says the federal district judge who has opposed President Donald Trump's deportation flights of violent, criminal illegal aliens apparently wants to be president instead of his current position on the bench.
"It can't be like getting an act of Congress every time you want to export a dangerous violent felon illegal immigrant," Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said on "Sunday Morning Futures" on the Fox News Channel.
"And yet, you've got people like Judge [James] Boasberg who apparently wish they had gone into politics and would rather be serving as president of the United States than a federal district judge who are essentially cosplaying as chief executive officers of the United States government."
"The minute you start to have judicial officers performing the tasks that belong fundamentally to the either the executive or legislative branch, you've got a problem. And I'm hoping the Supreme Court can help us get this cleared up and cleaned up quickly."
Lee noted: "We've been flooded with millions, some would say tens of millions, of illegal immigrants."
The senator also expressed support for Trump's efforts to change the way birthright citizenship is handled in America.
"What President Trump has done is issue an executive order directing agencies prospectively, not to recognize the birthright citizenship … unless at the time of their birth they had at least one parent who was either a citizen or a lawful permanent resident," Lee explained.
"This is a close question. It's a debatable case, and I think it could go either way. I look forward to hearing the arguments and I hope the Supreme Court will sustain what President Trump is trying to do to clean up this invasion that President Biden invited into our country."
"Ideally we should pass legislation," he added. "Harry Reid who later became the Senate Democratic majority leader introduced in 1993 legislation that would do what essentially President Trump is trying to do by executive order."
Lee also voiced support for the SAVE Act, requiring identification to be provided by voters.
"We want to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat," he said.
