Eric Schmitt
@Eric_Schmitt
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Husband • Dad • United States Senator for Missouri • Diehard #STLCards fan
Joined January 2010
A few foreign scientists helped us complete moonshot projects. That's different than inviting millions to undercut American labor and collect benefits. Letting in Elon Musk doesn't mean opening our borders to Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
During the middle of the 20th century — when the US achieved unquestioned global scientific dominance — there was net zero migration. From the 20’s to the 70’s the foreign-born population was cut almost by half while the overall population doubled. (Until Hart-Celler kicked in).
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Advocates of mass migration have built an entire BS mythology to justify open borders. It’s one of the most destructive Globalist fetishes.
@JDVance 400,000 Americans worked on the Apollo program. 125 Germans were on Wernher von Braun’s rocket team. That’s still less than 1%. But these people want to equate the 1,600 from Operation Paperclip with the thousands that arrive in migrant caravans at the U.S. border daily.
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As an aside, my grandfather's infantry division — the 44th infantry unit — captured Wernher Von Braun in 1945 in Germany. That's Von Braun with his arm in a cast, posing for a photo with them shortly after surrendering.
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“I’ll have a Bloody Mary, a steak sandwich and a… steak sandwich.”.
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Americans murdered in Baltimore? Silence. A criminal illegal alien deported? Stop the presses. That's the modern Left's ideology—anarcho-tyranny. Freedom for criminals, and oppression for law-abiding citizens.
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If you support Western civilization, you should want Europe to be capable of defending itself. And if Europe starts pulling their weight, we can spend our resources on defending our homeland. It’s common sense. It’s American realism.
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Proud to be helping lead the Senate probe into alleged cover-up of Biden's decline.
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So great to see @PamBondi joining our fight against the ABA. This is a big win for sanity in our judiciary. The ABA is a failed institution that cares more about TDS than the weaponization of our justice system. The ABA merits no place in our judicial selection process.
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To read more about the problems at the American Bar Association, its woke shift, and its USAID funding, checkout my thread from March calling for the Senate Judiciary Committee to break free of the ABA’s influence over judicial selections.
The American Bar Association sat on the sidelines as our legal system was weaponized against normal Americans. Now, they launch a pressure campaign against President Trump on day one. We’ve had enough. It’s time to liberate our legal system from this failed institution. 🧵
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Fact check: ✅ True.
Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt has proposed expanding the expedited removal law to bypass the two-year protection for those who crossed the border during the Biden administration.
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America is a nation with an economy. Not the other way around. Mass migration and so-called "free trade" made a few people fabulously rich. But it sold out Middle America—the folks I grew up with.
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This is excellent. I introduced legislation to do this last year. Congress should pass my bill and make this ban permanent. America isn’t an incubator for our adversaries. Visas aren’t a right; they’re a privilege. Why should we be educating rivals with connections to the CCP?
The U.S. will begin revoking visas of Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields.
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RT @SenEricSchmitt: America is not an abstract “idea.” It’s not an economic zone. It’s our nation. It’s our people. It’s our home. That’s….
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This is exactly right. Globalism, liberalism, censorship, mass migration—for decades, the West has been war with itself. We finally have political leaders who are brave enough to face the crisis head on.
So apparently the State Department has a Substack and they are absolutely cooking . “The global liberal project is not enabling democracy. Rather, it is trampling democracy, and Western heritage along with it, in the name of a decadent governing class afraid of its own people.”
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This is how it always works. The Right wins elections, and the Left pretends to magically rediscover the Constitution, the rule of law and free speech. Don't fall for it. 🧵
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The dramatic lectures about "protecting our democracy" were so common during the first Trump Admin that they're now the butt of a joke. Ironically, "protecting our democracy" was the same line the Left used to justify its unprecedented crackdown on basic freedoms under Biden.
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That's because they don't mean a word of what they say. Not really. All of these arguments are a cynical means to an end—an "any weapon at hand" approach to politics. Beneath the moral preening, that's what all this boils down to—helping their friends and hurting their enemies.
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