Nancy Mace Calls for Ban on Foreign-Born Members of Congress

Anybody born outside of the United States should be allowed to serve in Congress.

Tell our viewers about your thoughts on that.

Correct. We don't have to look any further than Ilhan Omar or that guy, I can't say his last name, Shree.

These are people who've pledged allegiance to foreign countries.

They are influenced, I believe, by their foreign allegiance to other countries.

And we want to make sure that America is run by American patriots.

And if the president has to be natural born, so too should members of Congress.

So too should our judges. That's what my legislation was about.

But we shouldn't stop there in Congress.

Every single state across the country should ban foreigners or foreign-born individuals from being governor,

from being lieutenant governor, from serving in state legislatures.

We're seeing what's happening right now in real time to Europe.

And we want to make sure that doesn't happen here because once you're gone, there's no coming back from that.

And in fact, in the governor's race, we've got someone who's foreign-born.

I don't think he should be able to run for governor.

We don't know what his influences are.

And I want to make sure that natural-born citizens like the president of the United States,

that they're from here and serving our nation's interests.

So would that be retroactive, Congresswoman, in your view?

Would you actually throw people like Ilhan Omar out of Congress if you got this legislation passed?

Well, I've tried to throw Ilhan Omar out of Congress and have been blocked every time.

In fact, I tried to subpoena her and her alleged brother-husband's immigration records and was stopped from doing that, too.

I would be fine if we made it retroactive.

But at least going forward, if this thing can happen, then for the next election cycle or re-election cycle,

it would apply to those individuals who should not be serving in Congress.

Congresswoman Nancy Mace, a pleasure to be with you.