Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) called out “radical” Democrats for wanting to “defund and eliminate ICE” while Americans are being harmed by illegal alien crime in an exclusive interview on Breitbart News Saturday.
Instances of illegal alien truck drivers causing catastrophic crashes have been occurring all over the U.S., including a devastating crash that claimed the lives of four members of the Amish community in Banks’s home state of Indiana last week.
The Department of Homeland Security revealed the suspect to be a Kyrgyzstan native, Bekzhan Beishekeev, who allegedly “slammed” into the van carrying up to 15 passengers:
The victims were named by FreightWires.com as Henry Eicher, 58; his sons Menno, 33, and Paul, 31; and Simon Schwartz, 22.
“This illegal truck driver hit and killed all four of the Amish people who were in the van, and then the driver of the van was seriously injured,” Banks told Breitbart News’s Matthew Boyle. “What we know about this case is that he came into our country illegally under Biden, he came in and was paroled through the app that the Biden administration was using — the CBP One cell phone app — and given parole, released into our country.”
The state of Pennsylvania, governed by Democrat Josh Shapiro, then gave him a commercial driver’s license (CDL) that allowed him “to drive on our roads,” the senator continued.
Blasting his Democrat counterparts in congress, Banks accused them of wanting to prevent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials “from doing their job.”
“I don’t anticipate them coming to the table. They’re radicals about this. They want to prevent ICE from doing their job. That’s why they support the radical protesters who are blocking ICE in places like Minneapolis,” he told Boyle.