President Donald Trump's immigration policies appear to be creating a "moral horror" for at least one of the president's allies in Congress, according to two analysts.
Krystal Ball and Emily Jashinsky, co-hosts of the "Breaking Points" podcast, said on Monday that Trump's immigration policies seem to be alienating Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who has been one of the MAGA base's most loyal Trump supporters. They cited comments Greene recently made on comedian Tim Dillon's podcast, "The Tim Dillon Show.
"As a conservative, a business owner in the construction industry, and as a realist, I can say we have to do something about labor, and that needs to be a smarter plan than just rounding up every single person and deporting them just like that," Greene said.
While some have interpreted Greene's statement to be about labor costs, Jashinsky argued that Greene was really saying there appears to be no end to deportations.
"She was saying the problem is that right now there has been no off-ramp," Jashinsky said. "She uses the phrase off-ramp very specifically."
"Marjorie Taylor Greene has not wavered one bit on these policy ends," Jashinsky continued. "It's the means that she's questioning in this kind of grand cost-benefit analysis of whether the cost of this haphazard process is worth the benefit of the end that she hasn't wavered from ideologically."
Ball pointed out that Dillon also expressed a similar "moral horror" about Trump's deportation policies, saying that it was "horrible" to see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents showing up at birthday parties and graduations to conduct raids.