Ken Cuccinelli to Newsmax: Migrant Registration Imposes New Consequences

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, with her promise to enforce a federal law requiring immigrants in the United States illegally to register with the government, is stressing that there will be strong penalties for those breaking the law, former deputy DHS secretary Ken Cuccinelli said on Newsmax Sunday. 

“One thing that they’re doing here is they’re imposing a new consequence if illegals are here and are caught, who should have registered and didn’t,” Cuccinelli told Newsmax’s “Sunday Report.”

He added that the law will be strengthened the more that it is used, and “if folks are breaking more than one law, as most of them have already done by coming in here illegally,” they can face criminal consequences.

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