GOP senator on immigration plan: Liberal ‘fear mongering’ means ‘you’re onto something’

Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) is taking on Democratic opposition to his newly proposed immigration plan, saying that liberal “fear mongering” lets you “know you’re on to something good.” 

“Anytime a liberal politician starts fear mongering, you know you’re on to something good,” he told Fox News’s “Fox & Friends” on Thursday.

.@SenDavidPerdue on RAISE Act criticism: Any time a liberal politician starts fear mongering, you know you’re onto something good. pic.twitter.com/YGmzc4EZZM

— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) August 3, 2017

{mosads}Perdue joined President Trump and fellow Republican Sen. Tom Cotton (Ark.) at the White House on Wednesday for the rollout of a plan that would aim to curb legal immigration by instituting a merit-based system over the current preference for those with family ties to the U.S. 

Trump during the presidential campaign pledged to cut immigration.

Critics have pegged the new plan as an assault on American values. 

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said the “hateful, senseless, anti-immigrant agenda that instills fear in our communities, weakens our nation, and dishonors our values.” 

“We’ve modeled this after Canada, for goodness sake,” Perdue responded on Thursday. “I mean goodness, Nancy Pelosi herself and other liberal Democrats have talked about Canada as being a beacon of light, and all we’re doing is modeling this after a program they’ve proven for decades works.”