From Fox News: A tense exchange unfolded during a Senate Budget Committee hearing Tuesday when Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno pressed a former Biden advisor on whether illegal immigration into the United States should be considered a crime.
“I don’t know anything about this law,” Brendan Duke, a former senior policy advisor in the Biden White House, and now Senior Director for Federal Budget Policy at Center on Budget and Priority Policies, told Moreno when asked if the 1952 Immigration and Naturalization Act “made a mistake” prohibiting people from entering the country illegally.
“Do you think it should be a crime to enter the country illegally?” Moreno followed up.
Duke, former Senior Director for Economic Policy at the Center for American Progress, responded, “I don’t know anything about this. I’m here to talk about budgets.”
But Moreno refused to let Duke off the hook, saying, “Look, I’m not a lawyer, you don’t have to be a lawyer. It’s a simple question. Should it be a crime? I’ll say it slowly. Should it be a crime to enter the United States of America illegally without permission?”
When Duke ducked and dodged again, Morena asked, “Should it be a crime for people to enter your home without permission?”
It got even more heated after that, as Moreno unloaded on both the radical witness and the Democrat lawmakers who brought him there.
WATCH the entire confrontation below:
Here’s a simple question: is it a crime to enter the country illegally? At least, you’d think that’s an easy question. But when I asked Joe Biden’s senior policy advisor, he said he didn’t know!
Make no mistake: the Biden Border Crisis was a choice. President Trump solved it. pic.twitter.com/E0mpZdI53J
— Bernie Moreno (@berniemoreno) March 10, 2026
Videos of the wild moment are going viral on social media.
“This is Insane!”, “What a disgrace!”, “What a joke!” are just some of the comments being posted.
Former congressional candidate Kimberly Klacik of Baltimore mocked, “Democrats can’t define a woman. Democrats can’t identify a crime. This is pathetic.”
Heritage Action wrote, “Shout out to the man cracking up in the background as the Democrats’ witness is unable to admit it is wrong to enter our country illegally. Sometimes all you can do is laugh when they try to defend this kind of lunacy.”
Shout out to the man cracking up in the background as the Democrats’ witness is unable to admit it is wrong to enter our country illegally.
Sometimes all you can do is laugh when they try to defend this kind of lunacy. https://t.co/AJ7G8Msefj
— Heritage Action (@Heritage_Action) March 10, 2026
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