'We're Being Overrun': Tommy Tuberville Cheers Trump’s Xenophobic Comments

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) welcomed former President Donald Trump’s xenophobic comments about migrants “poisoning the blood” of the U.S. — but said he was disappointed that they didn’t go far enough.

“I’m mad he wasn’t even tougher than that,” the Trump ally told The Independent’s Eric Garcia on Tuesday. “When you see what’s happening at the border? We’re being overrun. They’re taking us over.”

At a Saturday rally in New Hampshire, Trump had declared that people coming to the U.S. are “poisoning the blood of our country” — language that has been compared to that of dictators such as Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. He used similar language in an interview earlier this year, saying at the time that people are coming to the U.S. “with disease.”