‘Haven’t thought of that’: Biden’s AG nominee Garland dodges query if unlawful immigration ought to stay against the law

Former choose Merrick Garland, nominated by President Joe Biden to guide the Justice Division, appeared to say “I don’t know” lots at his Senate affirmation listening to, together with when requested about unlawful immigration.

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Senators questioned Garland on Monday forward of the ground vote on his nomination, which seems to be a foregone conclusion. Again and again, nonetheless, he wouldn’t decide to issues – from safeguarding the probe by particular counsel John Durham into the FBI and DOJ spying on former President Donald Trump, to issues resembling enforcement of US immigration legal guidelines.

“Do you consider that unlawful entry at America’s borders ought to stay against the law?” requested Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) at one level, just for Garland to answer,“I simply haven’t thought of that query.”

HAWLEY: "Do you consider that unlawful entry at America's border ought to stay against the law?"

GARLAND: "I simply haven't thought of that query… I don't know of a proposal to decriminalize however nonetheless make it illegal to enter." pic.twitter.com/RDSRsdCabu

— Every day Caller (@DailyCaller) February 22, 2021

“I don’t know of a proposal to decriminalize however nonetheless make it illegal to enter,” Garland added. Requested if the DOJ would proceed to prosecute unlawful immigration, he referred to as it “a query of allocation of assets.”

“I’ve to confess I simply don’t know precisely what the circumstances are and the way that is accomplished,” he advised Hawley. “I assume that the reply can be sure however I don’t know…”

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) argued that Garland’s no-answer on the burning problem ought to disqualify him from workplace.

 “Each single a part of this response ought to disqualify Merrick Garland from being Lawyer Basic of the USA of America,” she tweeted.

Each single a part of this response ought to disqualify Merrick Garland from being Lawyer Basic of the USA of America. https://t.co/TPONj3xphx

— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) February 22, 2021

Garland, 68, is more likely to be confirmed as Biden’s legal professional normal. He grew to become a family identify in 2016, when President Barack Obama wished him to fill the US Supreme Court docket emptiness left by the demise of Justice Antonin Scalia – just for the Republican-majority Senate to refuse to contemplate the nomination. 

He had labored as a prosecutor on the DOJ in the course of the Clinton administration, and was confirmed as a federal choose on the US Court docket of Appeals for the DC circuit in 1997. He resigned earlier this month, after greater than 13 years on the bench. 

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