Watch a Republican Congressman Sidestep a Straightforward Question About Immigration

On Monday's episode of “With All Due Respect,” Representative Tim Huelskamp, one of the most strident anti-illegal immigration Republicans in the House, refused to directly answer a question about what he would do about the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants in the country. “If you were president,” host Mark Halperin asked the Kansas Republican, “and Congress would pass whatever you wanted, what would you do about ... the 12 million who are in this country illegally?”

Huelskamp responded by saying he didn't know exactly how many immigrants were in the country illegally, and then tried to pivot to the importance of border security. When Halperin pressed him again for a plan to handle undocumented immigrants in the U.S., Huelskamp said “nobody in Washington I know of is talking about deportation ... That's what the president would like us to talk about.”