In a stunning display of anti-American sentiment, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) told Attorney General Pam Bondi during a congressional hearing Tuesday that the "worst of the worst" criminals are native-born Americans, not the illegal immigrants flooding across our border.
The explosive exchange came as Bondi defended President Trump's aggressive deportation agenda before the House Judiciary Committee. Rather than supporting efforts to remove dangerous criminal aliens, Cohen chose to attack his own fellow Americans instead.
"The worst of the worst are native-born Americans, not immigrants," Cohen declared, apparently forgetting he was elected to represent American citizens, not foreign nationals who entered our country illegally.
This is the same radical Democrat mindset that gave us four years of the disastrous Biden border crisis. While MS-13 gang members, fentanyl dealers, and human traffickers poured across our southern border, leftists like Cohen preferred to demonize law-abiding Americans.
"What we're seeing here is the Democrat Party's true colors - they have more sympathy for criminal aliens than for the American people who elected them," a senior Republican aide told Next News Network.
AG Bondi didn't let Cohen's anti-American rhetoric slide, forcefully defending the Trump administration's deportation priorities and commitment to putting Americans first. The contrast couldn't be clearer: Trump's team is focused on removing dangerous criminals who shouldn't be here, while Democrats attack their own constituents.
Cohen's comments reveal the sick mentality that drove Democrats to create sanctuary cities, release criminal aliens back onto our streets, and fight Trump's border wall every step of the way. These are the same people who called concerned parents "domestic terrorists" for attending school board meetings.
Patriots across Tennessee should be asking themselves: Why is their congressman more concerned with protecting illegal immigrants than defending the Americans he swore an oath to represent? November can't come soon enough to retire these America-last politicians once and for all.