Thom Tillis wants to debate taxpayer dollars, so let’s have that debate. Every deportation costs the American taxpayer about $18,000. As Secretary, I sent a clear message to anyone here illegally: leave voluntarily or face deportation. Millions chose to self-deport.

Under my leadership at DHS, encouraging self-deportation saved taxpayers over $40 billion and allowed law enforcement to pursue other dangerous criminals on our streets. That doesn’t even include the costs avoided when people decided not to enter our country illegally in the first place. Tillis complains about advertising costs but conveniently ignores the taxpayer’s savings.

I also cut $15 billion in lucrative contracts that the same good old boys’ companies had benefited from for years. On my watch, they had to answer for how they spent Americans’ money.

President Trump promised to enforce our laws and protect Americans. I helped him deliver. Americans deserve the full record, not another self-serving television performance from Thom Tillis. January 3rd can’t come soon enough for the patriots in North Carolina that the Senator has turned his back on.

@KristiNoem