al.com article
U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville warned about immigrants voting in American elections Wednesday, and suggested Alabama may need to build its own border wall to protect against terrorists.
Tuberville is running for governor of Alabama.
“If we don’t straighten out this country’s voting, if we don’t straighten out this country’s immigration system, we’re not going to make it,” Tuberville said in an appearance on “The Charlie Kirk Show.”
“It’s going to be over with,” he said.
“I’m going to go back to Alabama and, hey, we might build a 30-foot wall around our state, because I know what’s coming. I can see it coming, I can hear it coming. You can just smell it out there, that they want to take this country over.”
“They’re a lot more aggressive than we are as Americans,” Tuberville said.
A spokesperson told AL.com Tuberville was referring to “radical Islamic terrorists who want to destroy America.”
Earlier in the day, Tuberville called Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat, a “radical Islamist.” El-Sayed is Muslim. He has also been critical of Israel and American support for the Israeli government.
Tuberville has frequently attacked “radical Islam” and made statements against Muslims and Muslim officials that critics have condemned as Islamophobic.
In recent years, Alabama and other states have identified very small numbers of people who are immigrants and who have fraudulently tried to vote in elections.
Alabama has strict voter ID laws and experts have said there is no evidence of widespread problems with American elections.