Jamie Raskin Wrecks Republican's 'Illegals' Comment With Blunt U.S. History Lesson

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) schooled Rep. Gary Palmer  on Wednesday after the Alabama Republican claimed that the Founding Fathers never anticipated having a mass number of people illegally come to America.

The comments arrived during a House Oversight Committee markup session where lawmakers addressed the Equal Representation Act , which if passed would require a citizenship question on the 2030 U.S. census and every census 10 years after that.

Raskin said a colleague claimed the founders never anticipated thered be huge numbers of people who couldnt vote who were being counted in the census.

Of course they did. The vast majority of Americans couldnt vote when the country started, said Raskin before Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) chimed in.

He said the founders never anticipated this volume of illegals, noted Higgins, who clarified Palmers remarks. Dont twist my colleagues words.

Raskin called it very valiant for Higgins to defend Palmer before sending a U.S. history lesson his way.

There was no immigration law when the Constitution was adopted at all. In fact, the only illegals in the country, at least according to the native population, were the people writing the Constitution, said Raskin of the document, which a number of people born outside of the U.S. signed .