Ex-INS Agent Michael Cutler: Trump's Comments 'a Long Time Coming'

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is "really is igniting a firestorm that's a long time coming" with his controversial comments about illegal immigrants, retired INS special agent Michael Cutler told Newsmax TV-Video on Tuesday.

Michael Cutler
"Our immigration laws are fundamental," he told "The Hard Line" host Ed Berliner. "They are essential to national security, public safety — and that's what the laws deal with.

"It's about keeping foreign nationals who have no inherent right to enter the United States out of our country," Cutler added. "We do this as civilians, as ordinary citizens — and we look through the peephole before letting strangers into our homes."
Cutler, who spent 30 years with the Immigration and Naturalization Service, said that the nation's laws have long hampered enforcement efforts regarding illegals.

"It's been going on for decades and it's about greed," he told Berliner. "It's about cheap labor. It's about the desire for huge numbers of foreign tourists who come to America — spend their money — it's about foreign students. We have over 1.1 million foreign students in the United States.

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